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daytime hides are normally difficult to find or reach, it is difficult
to keep a control on their numbers, but a villager told me with
some pride (and perhaps some exaggeration) that shortly before 1
visited the area a man had discovered a cave in which porcupines
were living and managed to kill four with one shot.
Mr Norman Storer of the Save the Children Fund informs me
that he has discovered a porcupine quill near Rijam on the eastern Notes on Contributors
side of the $an‘a’ plain, and reports from other parts of Yemen
suggest that the animal is to be found in many of the highland
areas of the country.
Sa‘fd Salman Abu *Adhirah, a Bedouin by origin, now works for the
Government of the U.A.E.
r- Dr. John Stacey Birks worked on Population Geography in the Sahara
and was awarded a Doctorate by Liverpool University. Subsequently he
was field team leader of the Durham Oman Research Project. He is now
Co-Director of the International Migration Project at Durham University.
A. F. L. Beeston is Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford University.
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Dr. Geoffrey King was awarded a Diploma in Fine Art at the Slade
School. Subsequently he obtained a Ph.D. from S.O.A.S. for a thesis on
the Umayyad mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus.
Patricia Dubuisson is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Islamic Studies,
McGill University. Her interests include the history of Oman and
pre-Islamic studies.
T- M. Johnstone is Professor of Arabic at S.O.A.S.
Robert Wilson is Assistant Lecturer in Arabic at Cambridge. He has done
I considerable field-work in the Yemen Arab Republic.
C. F. Beckingham is Profe
ssor of Islamic Studies at S.O.A.S.
Salih Ozbaran is
Istanbul. a Professor i in the Faculty of Arts at the University of
John Baldry has been teaching English in North Yem
His interests are in the modem history of the area. en for several years,
Theodore Prochazka, Jr.
! Riyadh. has taught for several years at the University of
Robin Bidwell is Secretary of the Middle East Centre, Cambridge
University, and the author of a recent book entitled Travellers in Arabia.
Pr'G- R- Smith, after Government service in Aden and teaching Arabic
yi the Universities of Cambridge and Durban, is now a Research Assistant
m the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts of the
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hisj1^ Library. He has recently published a work of mediaeval Yemeni

on is a Lecturer in Geography at Oxford University. He
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forthcoming book on the aflaj of Oman.
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