Born in Riga, Latvia, James Feller has been the boy conductor of a touring family orchestra, a caretaker of a sheep ranch, a service station attendant, and a letter carrier. He teaches English at Foothill College in California, and is at work on a novel.

An American novelist turned farmer, Louis BROMFIELD has been rousing all who will listen in his fight for conservation. In his vigorous speeches from coast to coast, and most of all by the yields he has produced with modern methods on his own Ohio farm, he has shown that run-down, eroded acres can be transformed into fertile, productive fields. In this article he speaks from his experience as Chairman of the Ohio Wildlife Division, and the paper will be part of his new book, Out of the Earth.

Time detectives using atomic tools are piecing together a new and dramatic picture of the past, reaching back as far as 25,000 years. N. J. BERRILL, who gives us the clues to this fascinating discovery, is a lifelong student of the sea, a marine biologist now serving as Professor of Zoology at McGill diversity. Atlantic readers will remember his book Journey into Wonder, an account of the voyages and explorations of the great naturalists, from which we published three chapters last year.

Author and playwright, still in his thirties, JOHN D. STEWART derates his leisure time to writing and his tvorking days to the British civil service. For the past eight years he has been stationed at Gibraltar, where he has had a chance to observe some of the mysterious flights and habits of the great vultures that constantly swoop down from the sky in southern Spain.

CHARLOTTE JACKSON,who is the author of seven juveniles, is children s-book editor for the San Francisco CHRONICLE.