WELL, LATE, AGAIN, BUT at least only by a couple of months, and not by a millennium.
Changes are afoot. Gray Williams has put in a sterling effort as 'our man in the DEB', but now retires, exhausted, as a Porcupine! editor. He will be replaced in future issues by the indefatigable Richard Corlett, assuming that the latter is not burned at the stake by his peers for the thrilling heresy he commits on pp. 20-21.
Typhoon York breezed through on 16 September, knocking over a few trees en route, and we devote some space to a discussion of its immediate impacts. After the largely unvegetated Porcupine! 19, flora reasserts itself in this issue with the help of Terence Fong (seagrasses) and Julia Shaw (Cyperaceae). Vincent Lai talks crab, fish are hotly discussed, the astonishing Roger Kendrick again regales us with news of new moths, and - gasp! - 'Ranting' Angus Proctor returns.
David Melville, the bristly colossus of WWFHK, left for New Zealand in early November. He was a towering influence over the Porcupine! editors, even though he always managed to wriggle out of writing anything for us. Tributes (of a sort) are penned by Clive Viney and Michael Lau, inside.
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