* Such as a contract for three more volumes on Arctic Botany and Ecology to be published by Oxford University Press's prestigious Clarendon Press, for which publication it was decided the time had passed since our years of helping to plan and establish (inter alia as designer of the layout and first Dean of Science) a major university in Nigeria for which we still felt some responsibility.

† We also aspire to foster the long-dreamed-of global network of Biosphere Clubs so that they become recognized and treated as effective environmental/conservational watch-dogs — duly guided in policy matters by a revived World Council For The Biosphere — while seeking a Biosphere Fund sufficient to award a major Biosphere Prize and 5 or 6 satellite prizes each year to be announced on Biosphere Day.