Contents

COVER : The green and golden bell frog is becoming scare in its native Australia, but is still common enough in the north of this country - here adding charm to the lily pads of a Hamilton pond.
CONTENTS - Features :
AND FOR MARLBOROUGH, FINE AND DRY [Many of the lambs born in drought-stricken central Marlborough last spring probably never saw grass until March, but not everyone has fared as badly as the farmers during the harsh summer of ’98]
A WALK IN THE WAITUTU FOREST [off the beaten track - in fact almost off the bottom of the South Island - Waitutu is regarded as holding the finest swathe of lowland forest in the country. A recent deal between Maori and government has seen the whole area protected]
C.F. GOLDIE : THE OLD MASTER REVISITED [The subjects in Charles Goldie’s Maori portraits are so lifelike you feel like checking their pulse. Yet some critics have dismissed the works as patronising Victorian artefacts, devoid of real artistic merit]
THE TRUTH ABOUT TADPOLES AND FROGS [Wide-mouthed and web-footed, frogs hold a certain fascination - for children if not their parents. Worldwide they seem to be in sharp recession, but are those found here on the same slide?]
FINDING OURSELVES AT TE PAPA [It opened to a great fanfare in February, and attendance is still far higher than expected, but how successfully does the new Museum of New Zealand live up to its boast of being “our place”?]
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS -- GEONEWS [rose-hips; a new lizard; maps] -- WEATHER [the end of El Nino] -- SPACE [Illusions of sterility] -- SPACE [navigation among the stars] -- COMING UP.