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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Dear syrphid friends,<BR>today
I got very happy because I received one of the first copies of the just
published <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">first volume of the Swedish
book about Hoverflies</B>. The volume covers all known species of
<U>Syrphinae</U> in Fennoscandia incl. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Iceland with species accounts, distribution maps, keys
and illustrations. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I
want to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of you who have helped
me with information or specimens or have encouraged me in other ways. My
thoughts also go to V.S. van der Goot who with his book of 1981 ”De zweefvliegen
van Noordwest-Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van het Benelux”
started the European Syrphidae-boom, of which this book just is one of the many
outcomes. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Those of you who did attend
the International Symposium on Syrphidae in Leiden/Netherlands 2005 and/or in
Siikaranta/Finland 2007 have already got some glimpses about the Swedish book in
my papers given there. Unfortunately I cannot attend in Novi Sad – but Rune
Bygebjerg will bring a copy with him to the symposium so that those of you who
meet there have the possibility to have a look at it. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">I also wish all a good symposium in Novi Sad.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">For more information about the
Swedish book please go to <A href="http://www.nationalnyckeln.se"></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff>www.nationalnyckeln.se</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <FONT
color=#000000>(or</FONT> google eg. ”Nationalnyckeln hoverflies”) and choose
Swedish or English information. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The book
can also be obtained from various book shops. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">second volume</B> of the Swedish book about
Hoverflies is planned for the end of the year and will cover the remaining
species of Syrphidae in the Nordic countries.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">And do not hesitate to visit
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><A href="http://www.artprotalen.se/"></SPAN><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.artprotalen.se" claiming to be</b></font> <SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">www.artportalen.se</A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> (or google on
”Artportalen”), click on ”rapportsystemet för småkryp” (with the
butterfly-ilustration) and on next page click on ”landskapskatalog för
blomflugor” – and you will see a <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">time
window based province catalogue for Swedish hoverflies</B> covering the days
from Linnaeus on to 2008. On the same site you can by now also find about 10.000
observations of Swedish Syrphidae (just a beginning!) amongst other observations
of Swedish fauna & flora. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Finally I want to express
my congratulations to the authors of this years book about <STRONG>Hoverflies of
the Netherlands</STRONG> which I got in my hands
yesterday. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Best wishes <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hans Bartsch
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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