Reviews

The Technique of Wildlife Cinematography, by J. Warham. Focal Press, London, 1966. 42/-. 222 pages, 42 photos, text-figures.

A Field Guide to the Bird of Britain and Europe, by R. Peterson, G. Mountfort, and P. A. D. Hollom (revised and enlarged edition).Collins, London, 1966. 30/-. 344 pages, 66 plates, text-figures and map.

Les Rapaces Diurnes et Nocturnes d'Europe, by P. Géroudet. Editions Delachaux & Niestlé, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1965. 426 pages, 48 plates (24 in colour), 50 text-figures.

The Birds of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, by M. C. Radford. Longmans, 1966. 42/-. 212 pages, 19 photographic plates, frontispeiece by R. A. Richardson.

Land and People: The Countryside for Use and Leisure, edited by Rosemary Jellis. B.B.C. Publications, 1966. 6/-. 142 pages.     

Reviews

The Birds of Glamorgan, edited by A. Heathcote, D. Griffin and H. Morrey Salmon. Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 1967 (Annex to vol. 94 of the Transactions of the Society). 30/-. 143 pages, 9 black and white photos, end-paper maps.

Birds of Norfolk, by M. J. Seago. Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., Norwich, 1967. 45 /-. 148 pages, 65 coloured photos, end-paper maps.

The Birds of Huntingdonshire, by C. F. Tebbutt. Published by the author, 1967. 75 pages, map.

A Supplement to the Birds of Cheshire, by T. Hedley Bell. Published by the author (12/16 Booth St., Manchester 2), 1967. 91 pages.

The Birds of the Doncaster District, by R. J. Rhodes. Doncaster and District Orn. Soc. (125 Chequer Avenue, Belle Vue, Doncaster), 1967. 10/-. 101 pages, map.

Pesticides and Pollution, by Kenneth Mellanby. Collins, New Naturalist, London, 1967. 30 /-. 221 pages, 30 photos, 4 in colour.

Man and Environment, by Robert Arvill. Penguin Books, London, 1967. 8/6. 332 pages, 13 black and white photos.

The Wreck of the Torrey Canyon, by Crispin Gill, Frank Booker and Tony Soper. Davis & Charles, Newton Abbott, 1967. 21/-. 128 pages, 31 black and white photos.

Courtship: a zoological study, by Margaret Bastock. Heinemann, London, 1967. 25 /-. 220 pages, 63 text-figures.

The Book of the American Woodcock, by W. G. Sheldon. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Mass., 1967. $8.50. 227 pages,58 figures.

The Whooping Crane: a fight against extinction, by Faith McNulty. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1967. 30/-. 190 pages, 26 illustrations.

Birds of Australia, A. Rutgers. 2 vols. Methuen, London, 1967. 35/- each. Each with 80 coloured plates from the lithographs of John Gould.     

Special Reviews

Fair Isle and its Birds, Kenneth Williamson. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1965. 30/-. xvi + 311 pages, 17 figures and maps, 27 photographs.

Waterfowl Tomorrow, edited by Joseph P. Linduska. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Washington D.C., 1964. 4 dollars. 770 pages, 187 photographs, I (folded) map, many drawings by Bob Hines. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington D.C., 20402.

The Giant Canada Goose, Harold C. Hanson. Southern Illinois University Press (U.K. Agent, W. S. Hall, London), 1965. $ 9.75. 226 pages, 74 photos, text-figures and tables.

The Harvest that Kills, John Coleman-Cooke. Odhams, 1965. 25/-. 207 pages.

Gardening without Poisons, Beatrice Trum Hunter. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1 965. 25/-. 294 pages, line drawings.

The Life of the Robin, David Lack. H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., London, 1965. 30/-. 240 pages, text-figures.

Vertebrate Fauna of the Halifax Parish, compiled by I. Morley. Halifax Scientific Society, 1965. 103 pages, 3 photographic plates.

The Bird Table Book, Tony Soper. David & Charles, Dawlish, and Macdonald, London, 1965. 21/-. 140 pages, 20 photos, numerous line drawings.

Song and Garden Birds of North America; Water, Prey and Game Birds of North America, Alexander Wetmore, with chapters by Dean Amadon, E. T. Gilliard, A. H. Miller, R. C. Murphy, R. T. Peterson, and others. $11.95 each (post paid), from Nat. Geog. Soc., Dept. 280, Washington, D.C., 20036. 400 and 464 pages respectively, numerous illustrations, nearly all in colour, 6 long-playing records in cover-flap of each.

The Birds of Shakespeare, J. E. Harting. Argonaut Inc. Publishers, Chicago, 1965. $7.50. 321 + xxxviii pages.

Serengeti Shall Not Die, B. & M. Grzimek. Collins, London, 1965. 25/-. 256 pages, 44 photos, text-figures.

Wings of Light, Garth Christian. Newnes, London, 1965. 35/-. 178 pages, 31 photos.

Antarctic Biology (Proceedings of the First Symposium on Antarctic Biology held at Paris in 1962), ed. R. Carrick, M. Holdgate and J. Prévost. Editions Hermann (115 Boulevard St-Germain, Paris 6), 1965. 54 N.F. 652 pages, 11 plates, numerous text-figures.

Birds of Town and Village, W. D. Campbell; paintings by Basil Ede.Country Life, London, 1965. 126/-. 156 pages, 36 coloured plates.

The Game Research Association, 5th Annual Report, 1965.

The Wildfowlers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Report and Year Book 1964–65.     

The value of measurements in the study of wader migration; a reply

Birds of West Central and Western Africa. Vol. 2. By C. W. Mackworth- Praed and C. H. B. Grant. Longman. 1973. 818 pp., 93 colour-plates, hundreds of distribution maps. Price £8.00., by L. A. Batten

A Guide to the Birds of Wales. David Saunders. Constable &; Co. Ltd, London. 1974. 341 pp. Many photographs and sketch maps. Price £2.50., by Chris Mead

The World of an Estuary. Heather Angel. Faber and Faber, London. 1975. 128 pp., 50 black and white photographs. Price £1.95., by A. J. Prater

Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland. Dr J. T. R. Sharrock, with drawings by P. J. Grant. T. &; A. D. Poyser Ltd., Berkhamsted. 1974. 26 plates. Price £3.80., by D. E. Glue

The Buzzard. Colin R. Tubbs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1974. 199 pp., 17 photographs and 11 figures. Price £4.75., by Chris Mead

Birds of the Yorkshire Coast. Richard Vaughan. Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd., London. 1974. 96 pp. 77 plates. Price £1.70 hardback, £1.20 paperback., by H. B. Ginn

The Naturalist in Majorca. James D. Parrack. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. 1973. 224 pp., 32 black and white plates and 15 line drawings. Price £3.95., by L. A. Batten

Feathers Plain and Fancy. Hilda Simon. Frederick Muller, London. 1973. (First published 1969.) Viking Press, New York. 126 pp., many colour and black and white illustrations by the author. Price £2.00., by H. B> Ginn

A Revised Check-List of the Maltese Islands. By C. De Lucca. E. W. Classey Ltd, Hampton, Middlesex, 1969. 95pp. Price £0.75.

Die Vögel des Bodenseegebietes. By H. Jacoby, G. Knötzsch and S. Schuster. Supplement to Vol. 67 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1970. 260pp. 16 black and white plates.

Die Vogelwelt der Limmattal und Zürichseeregion. By W. Knopfli. Supplement to Vol. 68 of Der Ornithologische Beobachter, 1971. 174pp. 4 colour plates.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Scandinavian Ferns. Benjamin Øllgard and Kirsten Tind. 317 pp., 114 colour plates, 103 line drawings. Rhodos International Science and Art Publisher, Copenhagen. 1993. Hardback: ISBN 87–7245–532–2, Danish kr. 425.
Stewart & Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Third edition. Edited by Paul Hackney, xi + 419 pp., 14 colour & 9 black-and-white photographs, maps and tables. Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation. Christopher Grey-Wilson. 208 pp., 114 colour plates, 38 lines drawings. B. T. Batsford, London. 1993.
Wild and Garden Plants. Max Walters. 200 pp., 39 colour plates, 51 black-and-white illustrations. The New Naturalist Library. HarperCollins, London. 1993.
Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family. R. L. Dressier. 314 pp., 16 colour plates (96 photographs) and numerous black-and-white drawings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1993.
Flowering Plants of the World. V. H. Heywood (Consultant Editor). 335 pp., many part-colour illustrations and maps. B. T. Batsford, London. 1993.     

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: Still a great guide

Neotropical Rain Forest Mammals: A Field Guide, Second Edition. Text by Louise H. Emmons. Illustrations by Francois Feer. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997, xvi + 307 pages, 29 color plates, 7 black-and-white plates, 19 figures, 195 maps, $25.95 (paper), $80.00 (cloth).     

Maya and Altaic

Evolution and Human Behavior. Alexander Alland. Social Science Paperbacks. No. 49. Tavistock Publications. London 1969. 243 pp. 37 figs. Price 18/‐.

The Two Worlds of the Washo. An indian Tribe of California &; Nevada. (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.) James F. Downs, Holt, Rine‐hart and Winston, Inc., New York 1966. 113 pages, 1 map, 1 pl.

West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. with an Introduction by Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press. Oxford 1967. 289 pp. Price 50 s.net.

Francisco de Avila. Hermann Trimborn und Antje Kelm. Quellenwerke zur Alten Geschichte Amerikas aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben vom Ibero‐Amerikanischen Institut Berlin der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Band VIII. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1967. 308 pp. Price DM 105: ‐ (I, "Francisco de Avila” by Hermann Trimborn, pp. 1–198; II, "Götter und Kulte in Huarochirí” by Antje Kelm, pp. 199–307).

The Individual and Culture. Mary Ellen Goodman. The Dorsey Press. Homewood, Illinois 1967. 265 pp. Price $ 4.95.

Mythologie du Masque en Nouvelle‐Calédonie. Jean Guiart. Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No. 18. Paris 1966. 150 pp., 22 pls., 1 map.

Goldgewichte aus Ghana. Brigitte Menzel. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde, Berlin. Neue Folge 12, Abteilung Afrika III, Berlin 1968. 242 S. Reich illustriert.

La division du temps et le calendrier rituel des peuples lagunaires de Côte d'Ivoire. Georges Niangoran‐Bouah. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXVIII. Paris 1964. 164 S., 12 Abbildungen.

Boum‐le‐Grand, village d'Iro: Claude Pairault. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXXIII. Paris 1966. 470 S., 225 Abb.

The Social Organization of the Western Apache. Grenville Goodwin. With a Preface by Keith H. Basso. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1969 (2nd edition), xxii+701 pp. Price $ 10.

The Gurage. A People of the Ensete Culture. William A. Shack. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, London 1966. 222 pp. Ill. Price 50 s.net.

Die Erde in Vorstellungswelt und Kulturpraktiken der sudanischen Völker. Jürgen Zwernemann. (Habilitationsschrift.) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1968. 545 S., 1 Karte. DM 80: ‐, broschiert.

The Medicine Man, Swifa Ya Nguvumali. Hasani Bin Ismail. Edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt. Oxford Library of African Literature. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Oxford 1968. 208 pp. Price 42 s.

Das Rind in den Felsbilddarstellungen Nordafrikas. Walther F. E. Resch. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band 20. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1967. 105 S., 24 Tafeln und 4 Abbildungen. Broschiert DM 20:‐.

Social Anthropology. Godfrey Lienhardt. 2nd edition. Oxford Paperbacks University Series Opus 15. London 1966. 177 pp. Price 7/6 net.

Churches at the Grass‐Roots. A Study in Congo/Brazzaville. Efraim Andersson. World Studies of Churches in Mission. Lutherworth Press. London 1968. 296 pp. Price 30/‐.

Os Macomdes de Moçambique. Vol. I‐II. Junta de Investigates do Ultramar. Centro de Estudos de Antropología Cultural. Lisboa 1964.

I. Aspectos históricos e económicos. Jorge Dias. 180 S., 109 Abb., 17 Zeichnungen, 7 Karten.

II. Cultura material. 192 S., 261 Abb., 74 Zeichnungen. Jorge Dias e Margot Dias.     

The relationship between ethnology and social anthropology 1

African Miniatures. The Goldweights of the Ashanti. Margaret Webster Plass. Lund Humphries, London 1967. 26 pp., 166 ill.

Anthropologists in the Field. Edited by D. G. Jongmans and P. C. W. Gutkind. Series: Non‐European Societies, nr 6. Royal van Gorcum &; Comp. N. V. Assen 1967. 277 pp. Price cloth Hf 32.50.

Races of Africa. C. G. Seligman. 4 ed. Opus 9 (Oxford Paperbacks University Series). Oxford University Press, London. 1966. 177 pp.

Hausa ba dabo ba ne. A collection of 500 Proverbs translated and annotated by A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene. Ibadan. Oxford University Press London 1966 84 pp. Price 5/3 d.

Human Evolution. An Introduction to Man's Adaptations. Bernard G. Campbell. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago 1966. 425 pp., 135 ill. Price $ 8.95.

Human Evolution. Readings in Physical Anthropology (2nd cd.) Noel Korn and Fred W. Thompson (editors). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1967, 466 pp. figs. $ 4.95.

Caste and Race: Comparative Approaches. A Ciba Foundation Volume. Ed. by Anthony de Reuck and Julie Knight. J. &; A. Churchill Ltd., London 1967. 348 pp. Price 60 s.

The American Negro. A Study in Racial Crossing. Melville J. Hersko‐vits. A Midland Book, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1964. 92 pp. Price $ 1.65.

Strangers to the City: Urban Man in Jos, Nigeria. Leonard Plotnicov. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1967. 320 pp. Price hardbound $ 6.95, paperbound $ 2.95.

Ozeanien. Paul Collaer. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Hrsg. von Heinrich Besseler und Max Schneider, Band I: Musikethnologie, Lieferung 1. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1965. 234 S., 178 Abb.

A Study of Polyandry. H. R. H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark. Mouton &; Co. The Hague 1963. 606 pages, 44 photographs, 4 figs., 2 sketches, 6 maps, 48 genealogical tables. Cloth. Price: Glds. 68.‐(=ab. US $ 19.00, £ 6.16.‐, DM 75.50, 94.50 F).

African Music. A Briefly Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Darius L. Thieme. Library of Congress, Reference Department, Music Division, Washington 1964. 55 pp. 45 cents.

Tribes and forms in African Art. William Fagg. Methuen &; Co. Ltd., London 1965. 122 Pl. 6 Guineas net.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Wild Orchids of Scotland. Brian Allan and Patrick Woods. 135 pp., many colour photographs, line drawings and maps. HMSO, Edinburgh. 1993.
The Orchids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Gunnar Seidenfaden and Jeffrey Wood. 779 pp., 315 black & white line drawings, 48 colour plates and 1 black and white photograph. Olsen & Olsen, Fredenborg, Denmark. 1992.
The Orchid Book- a Guide to the Identification of Cultivated Orchid Species. Ed. J. Cullen. 529 pp., 16 colour photographs, numerous line drawings. Cambridge University Press. 1992.
Iris of China. James W. Waddick and Zhao Yu-tang. 192 pp., 31 colour photographs, 21 plates of line-drawings. Timber Press, Oregon. 1992.
Garden Pests & Predators — the wildlife in your garden and its ecological control. Elfrida Savigear. 128 pp., line-drawings. Blandford, London. 1992.
Seeds of Woody Plants in North America. James A. Young and Cheryl G. Young. 407 pp. Dioscorides Press, Oregon. 1992.
Gardening with Camellias. A complete guide. Jim Rolfe. 176 pp., 175 colour photographs. Godwit Press Ltd., New Zealand (distrib. in UK by Batsford). 1992.
Success with Rhododendrons and Azaleas. H. Edward Reiley. 285 pp., 87 colour and 33 black-and-white photographs, maps. Timber Press, Oregon. 1992.
The Old Rose Advisor. Brent C. Dickerson. 400 pp., 274 colour plates. Timber Press, Oregon. 1992.
The Subtropical Garden. Jacqueline Walker. 175 pp., many colour photographs. Godwit Press Ltd., New Zealand (distrib. in UK by Batsford). 1992.     

A critique of the methodology of Robert Redfield: ‘Folk culture’ and other concepts

The Raw and the Cooked. Claude Levi‐Strauss. Jonathan Cape 1970. 387 pp., ill., bibl. Price £3.5.0.

Folktales of Israel. Ed. by Dov Noy with the assistance of Dan Ben Amos. Transi, by Gene Baharav. The University of Chicago Press. Folktales of the World. Chicago 1963. 221 S. $ 4.00.

Politics of Social Research. An inquiry into the ethics and responsibilities of social scientists. Ralph L. Beals. Aldine Publishing Company. Chicago 1969. 228 pp.

African Stone Sculpture. Philip Allison. Percy Lund, Humphries &; Co., Ltd. London 1968. 71 pp. 99 pls. 3 maps. Price 56 s.

The Elementary Structures of Kinship. (Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté). Claude Lévy‐Strauss. Rev. ed. translated from the French by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer and Rodney Needham, Editor. Beacon Press, Boston; Eyre &; Spottiswoode Ltd., London. 1969. 541 pp., 87 figs. Price $ 15.00.

Contes sous la Croix du Sud. Giselle de Goustine. (Les littératures populaires de toutes les nations. N.S., T. XIII). Editions G.‐P. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris 1967. 208 pp.

La divination malgache par le sikidy. Raymond Decary avec la collaboration de Marcelle Urbain‐Faublée. Publications du centre Universitaire des Langues Orientales Vivantes, 6e série, vol. IX. Paul Geuthner, Paris 1970. 111 pp.

Über Lebensraum und Lebensformen des Frühsemiten. Joseph Henninger. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Geisteswissenschaften, Heft G 151. Westdeutscher Verlag. Köln und Opladen 1968. 61 Seiten. Kart. DM 6.60.

Indianer von gestern, heute und morgen. Beobachtungen zum Kulturwandel in den Anden Boliviens. Hermann Trimborn. Kulturgeschichtliche Forschungen; 12. Band. Albert Limbach Verlag, Braunschweig 1968. 96 S., 104 Abb., 1 Karte. Preis DM 38:—.

Der Wandel ökonomischer Rollen bei den westlichen Dan in Liberia. Eberhard Fischer. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band XXI. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1967. 481 S. 4 Taf. 7 Abb. DM 66:—.

An Anthropological Bibliography of South Asia. Together with a Directory of Anthropological Field Research. Vol. III. 1960–64. Compiled by

Elizabeth von Fürer‐Haimendorf and Helen Kanitkar. Le Monde d'Outre‐Mer Passé et Présent, Quatrième Série. Bibliographies VIII. Editions Mounton &; Cie, Paris 1970. 562 pp. Price 193 F.

Man‐apes or Ape‐men? The Story of Discoveries in Africa. Sir Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1967. 150 pp., 33 fig., bibliography, index. Price $3.95.     

Book Reviews

Psychobiology: The Biological Bases of Behavior Pp. 382, illustrated. New York: Scientific American, 1967. 70s. (cloth), 40s. (paper). Reviewed by O. Lowenstein

Organisation in Plants W. M. M. BARON Pp. vi+218, 117 figs. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 2nd ed., 1967.18s. (paper), 30s. (boards). Reviewed by J. W. Hannay

A First Biology ERIC SPRINGTHORPE Pp. 103. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., 1967. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by J. A. Barker

The Biology of Lichens MASON E. HALE, JR. Pp. viii + 176, 60 figs, 15 plates. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1967. 42s. Reviewed by K. A. Kershaw

Experiments in the Study of Biology J. J. W. BAKER, G. E. ALLEN, E. GAGE and S. K. WEBSTER Pp. 58. London: Addison-Wesley, 1967. Reviewed by C. F. Stoneman

Microbiological Methods C. H. COLLINS Pp. xii+404, illustrated. London: Butterworths, 2nd ed. 1967. 62s. Reviewed by N. J. Butler

The New Microbiology Ed. JOHN E. FLYNN New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1966. Reviewed by W. Howard Hughes

,i>Pergamon Programmed Texts Introduction to Genetics: Science of Heredity A. J. S. MCMILLAN Pp. 410, 64 figs, 6 plates. 1966. J. Audrey Stretch

An Introduction to Biochemistry Vol. 1 A. J. S. MCMILLAN Pp. 208. 1966. J. Audrey Stretch

Biology, Vol. 1 A. VERRINDER Pp. 274, 126 figs. 1966. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Commonwealth and International Library. 25s. (flexi-cover), 35s. (hard cover). J. Audrey Stretch

Grasses JAMES GROVES Published by the School Natural History Society, 1966, and obtainable from M. J. Wootton, Esq., 19A King's Gardens, Cranham, Upminster, Essex. 3s.

Biology Teaching in Schools Involving Experiment or Demonstration with Animals or with Pupils Compiled by J. J. BRYANT The Association for Science Education, 1967. 2s. 9d.

Handbook of Marine Biology for Borth, Cardiganshire A compilation of results and work completed by members of King Edward's School, Birmingham. Obtainable from the School. 6s. 6d.

Clarendon Biographies (16) Charles Darwin R. C. OLBY Pp. 64, 3 figs, 12 plates. London; Oxford University Press, 1967. 9s. 6d. (boards), 5s. (limp).

New Questions in O-Level Biology (Book 2) Plants and Invertebrates J. J. HEAD Pp. 70, illustrated. London: Oliver & Boyd, 1967. 6s. (Teachers' guide. Pp. 32. 5s.)

Revision Exercises in Biology J. D. MAUNDER and C. JOHNSTON Pp. xiii + 130, illustrated. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1967. 8s. 6d.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
daylilies. A.B. Stout; introduction and updating by Darrel Apps. xxx + 145 pp., 11 colour and 37 black and white plates. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London and Melbourne. 1986.
WONDERS OF CREATION. NATURAL HISTORY DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH library. Ray Desmond. 248pp., 49 coloured and 67 black and white illustrations. The British Library, London & Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA. 1986.
A HANDBOOK OF ANNUALS AND BEDDING plants. Graham Rice. 272 pp., 20 colour plates and 42 line drawings. Croom Helm, London, & Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. 1986.
Victorian gardens. Brent Elliott. 285 pp. 12 colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations. B.T. Batsford Ltd., London. 1986.
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE DRAGONFLIES OF BRITAIN, EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA. J. d'Aguilar, J.-L. Dommanget and R. Prechac. 336 pp. with 40 colour plates. William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London. 1986.
the genus haworthia - a taxonomic revision. Charles L. Scott. 150 pp. + xl. Unnumbered colour and monochrome photographs. Aloe Books, Johannesburg. 1985. ISBN 0620079746. Price not stated.
A FIELD GUIDE TO CATERPILLARS OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS IN BRITAIN AND Europe. D.J. Carter, illustrated by Brian Hargreaves. 296 pp. 72 pages of coloured illustrations. William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London. 1986.
THE YEAR-ROUND BULB GARDEN. Brian Mathew. 144 pp. 144 colour plates and 22 line drawings. Souvenir Press. 1986. ISBN 0 285 62787 2. Hardback.
royal kew. Ronald King. 256 pp. 75 illustrations. Constable and Co. Ltd. 1985.
A REVISION Of STAPELIA L. (Asclepiadaceae). L.C. Leach. 157 pp. with 106 illustrations. Excelsa Taxonomic Series No. 3. Aloe Books, Johannesburg. 1985. ISBN 0620 07976 2. Price not stated.     

Heredity counseling

THE RISE AND FALL OF T. D. LYSENKO: By Zhores A. Medvedev. Translated by I. Michael Lerner. Columbia University Press, New York, 1969. 284 pp. $10.00.

TOO MANY: A STUDY OF EARTH'S BIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS: By Georg Borgstrom. Macmillan &; Co., Ltd., London, 1969. 368 pp. $7.95.

POPULATION (Second edition): By William Petersen. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1969. 735 pp. $10.95.

THE INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION: EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1930–1960: Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969. 748 pp. $12.95.

CELL STRUCTURE AND ITS INTERPRETATION: Edited by M. McGee‐Russell and K. F. A. Ross. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1969. 433 pp. $25.00.

AN ATLAS OF MAMMALIAN CHROMOSOMES: By T. C. Hsu and Kurt Benirschke. Springer‐Verlag, New York. Volume 1, 1967, 200 pp., $9.40. Volume 2, 1968, 200 pp., $9.40. Volume 3, 1969, 200 pp., §9.40.

PRENATAL DETERMINANTS OF BEHAVIOUR: By J. M. Joffe. Pergamon Press, New York, 1969. 366 pp. $13.00.

DEVELOPMENTS IN FERTILITY CONTROL: Report of WHO Scientific Group. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, No. 424. Geneva, Switzerland, 1969. 36 pp. Price: $1.00.

BIOCHEMISTRY OF MENTAL DISORDERS: World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 427. Geneva, Switzerland, 1969. 48 pp. $1.00.

ATLAS OF MENTAL RETARDATION SYNDROMES: By Sydney S. Gellis and Murray Feingold. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1968. $5.50.

THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE: By Arthur Koestler. Macmillan Company, New York, 1968. 384 pp. $6.95.     

Book reviews

RAFFAELE, H.A. (1989): A Guide to the Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Revised Ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. 254 pp, maps of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 41 plates (24 in full colour), checklists and detailed maps of important sites, paperback, $ 15.95 (hardcover $ 39.50).

HORWELL, D. (1988): Galapagos ‐ the enchanted isles. Dryad Press, London. Batsford Books. 64 pp., many figs, and black‐and‐white photographs, Hardcover £ 8.95.     

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The Prometheus Project: Mankind's Search for Long Range Goals by Gerald Feinberg, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York. 1969. 261 pages. Paperback $1.45.

The Holloman Story by George F. Meeter, The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106. 1967. 203 pages. $5.95.

Human Biology—A Guide to Field Methods/IBP Handbook #9 by J. S. Weiner and J. A. Lourie, F. A. Davis Co., 1915 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. 1969. 656 pages. $17.50.

Flowers of Europe/A Field Guide by Oleg Polunin, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. 1969. 662 pages. $15.00.

The Changing Classroom: The Role of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study by Arnold Grobman, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. 1969. 384 pages. $6.95.

Space Travel by Jeanne Bendick, Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 1969. 96 pages. $2.95.

The Role of Federal Agencies in Technology Transfer by Samuel I. Doctors, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1969. 230 pages.

Living in Space/The Astronaut and His Environment by Mitchell R. Sharpe, Doubleday Science Series, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York. 1969. 192 pages. $2.45 paperback.

Physical Science/Exploring The New World of Science by William Lemkin, Ph.D., Oxford Book Co., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016. 1969. 381 pages. $3.85.     

Book reviews

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians Aby Warburg. Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America. Trans. and introduced by Michael P. Steinberg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 114 pp., illus., biblio.

Through Navajo Eyes (again) Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Sol Worth and John Adair, with a new foreword, introduction, afterword, and illustrations by Richard Chalfen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 406 pages, 85 halftones, $24.95 (paperbound).

Cartographic Encounters Lewis, G. Malcolm (ed.). Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998:338 pp., index, 58 illus. $60.00 (hdbd.).

Photojournalism and Foreign Policy Perlmutter, David D., Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Icons of Outrage in International Crises. Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 1998. xvii + 162 pp., plates, illus., biblio., index. US $55.00 (hdbd.).

Sensuous Scholarship Stoller, Paul. Sensuous Scholarship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997: xviii+166 pp., illus., filmography, index. US $36.50 (hdbd.), $16.50 (paper).     

Book Reviews

Plant Life in West Africa. G. W. LAWSON. 8 × 5¼ in. pp. ix + 150 with 34 plates. Oxford: University Press, 1966. 22s. 6d. Reviewed by R. W. J. Keay

Wild Life and the Countryside: Nos. 255–262. Wildlife Publications, 10 Bouverie St., London, E.C.4. 16s./p.a. (9 copies). Reviewed by Ernest Neal

Vertebrate Palaeontology. A. S. ROMER. 3rd edition, pp. 468, 443 figs. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1967, 72s. Reviewed by C. B. Cox

Sensory Mechanisms. J. CASE. Pp. 113. Macmillan, N.Y.: Current Concepts in Biology Series, 1966. Reviewed by J. D. Carthy

Wealth from the Oceans. TONY LOFTAS. Pp. 69, 20 plates. London: Phoenix House (Progress of Science Series), 1967. 12s. 6d. Reviewed by J. Bossanyi

Poisonous Plants and Fungi in Colour. P. M. NORTH. Pp. 161, 133 plates, 7 figs. London: Blandford Press Ltd., 1967. 21s. Od. Reviewed by C. T. Prime     

On methods in hare Indian ethnology — a. rejoinder

Prelude to East African History, a collection of papers given at the First East African Vacation School in Pre‐European African History and Archaeology in December 1962, Merrick Posnansky, editor, Student's Library, Oxford University Press, London 1966. 186 pp., 9 s. 6 d.

Ethiopian Music. An Introduction. A Survey of Ecclesiastical and Secular Ethiopian Music and Instruments. Michael Powne. Oxford University Press, London 1966. xix+160 pp., 11 pl., 5 figs., 36 music ex. 1 map. Price 42 s. ‐ 2nd edition. London 1968. Price 45 s.

An Africans Religion. The Spirit of Nyajena. Case History of a Karanga People. Michael Gelfand. Juta &; Co., Limited. Cape Town, Wynberg, Johannesburg 1966. 135 pp. 1 Karte, Illustr. Price 37 s 6 d.

Mkhas Grub Rje's Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras. Ferdinand D. Lessing and Alex Wayman. Rgyud sde spyihi rnam par gzag pa rgyas par brjod. The Hague, Paris. 1968.

A Ceremonial Ox of India: The Mithan in Nature, Culture, and History. Frederick J. Simoons. University of Wisconsin Press Ltd., London 1968. 323 pp., pr. 104 s. 6 d.

Dor el Gussa und Gebel ben Ghnema. Zur nachpluvialen Besiedlungsgeschichte des Ostfezzan. Ergebnisse der Frobenius‐Expedition nach libyen 1963/64. Helmut Ziegert. Veröffentlichung des Frobenius‐Institutes Frankfurt. F. Steiner Verlag. Wiesbaden 1967. X+94 S. m. 19 Abb., 203 Taf., 3 Karten. Gebunden. DM 66: ‐.

Archäologische Untersuchungen am Mittleren Amazonas. Beiträge zur Vorgeschichte des südamerikanischen Tieflandes. Peter Paul Hilbert. Marburger Studien zur Völkerkunde I. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1968. 164 Abb., 11 Karten, 337 Seiten. Preis DM 60:‐.

Bibliography of Benin Art. Paula Ben‐Amos. Primitive Art Bibliographies. No. VI. The Museum of Primitive Art. New York 1968, 27 pp.

Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion. 1966. 176 pp. Price 30 s.

The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies. 1966. 156 pp. Price 30 s. A.S.A. Monographs 3 and 4. Michael Banton (general editor). Tavistock Publications. London.

Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology. George and Louise Spindler (general editors). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, London.

Changing Japan. Edward Norbeck. 1965. 82 pp., 1 map, 1 pl.

The Dusun. A North Borneo Society. Thomas Rhys Williams. 1965. 100 pp., 1 pl., 1 map.

Understanding an African Kingdom: Bunyoro. John Beatty. New York … 1965. 61 pp., 1 map.

Bunyoro. An African Kingdom. John Beatty. New York … 1960. 86 pp., 1 pl., 1 map.