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ECOLOGY OF FISHES I N TROPICAL WATERS by R. H. Lowe-McConnell.
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION, SPECIATION AND CLINES by J. A. Endler.
SCIENCE AND THE FISHERIES by D. H. Cushing.
EELS A NATURAL AND UNNATURAL HISTORY by Christopher Moriarty.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION TECHNICAL SERIES published by UNESCO, Paris, France.
LES LIVREES OU PATRONS DE COLORATION CHEZ LES POISSONS CICHLIDES AFRICAINS, by J. Voss.
SEISMIC SEA WAVES TSUNAMIS by T. S. Murty.
FISHES OF THE GULF OF MEXICO by H. Dickson Hoese & Richard H. Morre.
SOUND RECEPTION IN FISH edited by Arie Schuiff & A. D. Hawkins.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL BIODEGRADATION SYMPOSIUM Session XXIII edited by J. Miles Sharpley & Arthur M. Kaplan.
ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ESPECIALLY THERMAL WHICH WOULD INFLUENCE THE SURVIVORSHIP OF EXOTIC NILE PERCH IF INTRODUCED INTO ARTIFICIALLY HEATED RESERVOIRS IN TEXAS by Kenneth W. Thompson, Clark Hubbs & Barry W. Lyons.
IMPACT OF ACID PRECIPITATION ON FOREST AND FRESHWATER ECO–SYSTEMS IN NORWAY. Summary report by Finn H. Braekke
SOME METHODS FOR THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES OF BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES by J. M. Elliott.
SKYLAB FLOATING ICE EXPERIMENT by W. J. Campbell, R. O. Ramseier, R. J. Weaver and W. F. Weeks.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 1977.
SALMON FISHERIES OF SCOTLAND     

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ASPECTS AND PROSPECTS OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS . Edited by B. J effcoat .
ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH, VOLUME 8 . Edited by H. W oolhouse
PLANTS AND THEIR ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT . 21st Symposium of The British Ecological Society. Edited by J. G race , E.D. F ord & P.G. J arvis
PLANT TISSUE CULTURE . Proceedings of the Beijing (Peking) Symposium
NITROGEN FIXATION . Edited by W.D.P. S tewart
THE BLUE LIGHT SYNDROME . Edited by H. S enghr
COMMENTARIES IN PLANT SCIENCE , Volume 2. Edited by H. S mith
NEW TRENDS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF NITROGEN FIXATION . Edited by J. C hatt , G eneral L.M. da C amara P ina & R.L. R ichards
ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS . By A.H. F itter & R.K.M. H ay     

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BATS–A NATURAL HISTORY . By J. E. Hill & J. D. Smith.
PRIMATE BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY . By Hilary O. Box. Chapman & Hall
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PRIMATES . By. J. R. & P. H. Napier.
IN THE SHADOW OF EXTINCTION: A QUATERNARY ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF THE LAKE, FISSURES AND SMALLER CAVES AT CRESWELL CRAGS S.S.S.I . By R. D. S. Jenkinson & D. D. Gilbertson.
THE MAMMALS OF THE PALAEARCTIC REGION: A TAXONOMIC REVIEW . Supplement. By G. B. Corbet
HUMAN EVOLUTION: AN ILLUSTRATED INTRODUCTION . By Roger Lewin.
EXCAVATIONS AT GRIMES GRAVES, NORFOLK, 1972–1976 FASCICULE 1. NEOLITHIC ANTLER PICKS… A BIOMETRICAL ANALYSIS . By Juliet Clutton-Brock.
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IN MAMMALS . By T. B. Poole.
THE MAMMALS OF ZANZIBAR AND PEMBA ISLANDS . By R. H. W. Pakenham. Published by the author
ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND THE EVIDENCE . Edited by D. R. Strong, D. Simberloff, L. G Abele & A. B. Thistle.
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE PALEOBIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF CETACEA . By G. A. Mchedlidze.
THE OXFORD GUIDE TO MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA . By J. Mary Taylor.
WILDLIFE RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT . S. K. Eltringham. John Wiley & Sons
THE BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF MOUNTAIN UNGULATES . Edited by Sandro Lovari. Croom Helm
REPRODUCTION IN SHEEP . Edited by D. R. Lindsay & D. T. Pearce.
COMMUNICATION IN THE CHIROPTERA . By M. Brock Fenton.
FLYING SQUIRRELS: GLIDERS IN THE DARK . By Nancy Wells-Gosling.
MAMMALS OF THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, AND MARYLAND . By Wm. David Webster, James F. Parnell & Walter C. Biggs, Jr.
NATURALISED MAMMALS OF THE WORLD . By Sir Christopher Lever.     

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A MANUAL OF MAMMALOGY By A. F. DeBlase & R. E. Martin. W. C. Brown & Co.
SOUND RECEPTION IN MAMMALS Ed. by R. J. Bench, A. Pye & J. D. Pye. Symp. Zool. Soc.
MAMMALS OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA By R. M. Bere
WILD CATS OF THE WORLD By C. A. W. Guggisberg
MAMMALS OF THE WORLD By H. Hvass
ECOLOGY AND CONTROL OF RODENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMPORTANCE Report of a WHO Scientific Group. Technical Report Series 553
ZOOLOGIE ET ASSISTANCE TECHNIQUE Ed. by J. C. Ruwet, FULREAC
STRUCTURAL MATERIALS IN ANIMALS By C. H. Brown     

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CLONING AGRICULTURAL PLANTS VIA IN VITRO TECHNIQUES . Edited by B. V. C onger
EFFECTS OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION ON PLANTS. VOLUME 1. EFFECTS OF TRACE METALS ON PLANT FUNCTION (352 pp.). VOLUME 2. METALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (257 pp.). Edited by N. W. L epp
STOMATAL PHYSIOLOGY . Edited by P. G. J arvis AND T. A. M ansfield
DEVELOPMENTS IN PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES. VOLUME 3. CARBON AND NITROGEN METABOLISM . Edited by J. D. B ewley
ECOLOGICAL STUDIES. VOLUME 36. PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN PLANT ECOLOGY. TOWARD A SYNTHESIS WITH ATRIPLEX , By C. B. O smond , O. B jörkman and D. J. A nderson
PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES LIMITING PLANT PRODUCTIVITY . Edited By C. B. J ohnson
MATHEMATICS AND PLANT PHYSIOLOGY . Edited by D. A. R ose and D. A. C harles -E dwards
BIOSYNTHESIS OF ISOPRENOID COMPOUNDS, VOLUME 1 . Edited by J. W. P ortkr and S. L. S purgeon
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF PLANT ROOTS . Edited by R. B rouwhr , O. G apaiuková , J. K olek & B. C. L oughman
THE CELL CYCLE (Society for Experimental Biology, Seminar Series No. 10). Edited by P. C. L. J ohn     

Catalogue Announcements

A CATALOGUE OF THE TYPES OF BLOODSUCKING FLIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). By B. C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R. W. Crosskey, A. C. Pont, R. P. Lane, J. P. T. Boorman and C. A. Lowry (1990).
A CATALOGUE OF OLD WORLD PHLEBOTOMINE SANDFLIES (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE, PHLEBOTOMINAE). By A. K. Seccombe, P. D. Ready and L. M. HuddleStOn (1993).     

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Books reviewed in this article:
OXFORD SURVEYS OF PLANT MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY, Vol. 2. Edited by B. J. M iflin
ETHYLENE AND PLANT DEVELOPMENT. Edited by J. A. R oberts & G. A. T ucker
PERSPECTIVES ON PLANT POPULATION ECOLOGY. Edited by R. D irzo & J. S arukhan
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF THE GEOBIOSPHERE. I. ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. By H. W alter & S.-W. B reckle
SEEDS. PHYSIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND GERMINATION. By J. D. B ewley & M. B lack
REGULATION OF CARBON PARTITIONING IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC TISSUE. Edited by R. L. H eath & J. P reiss     

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ZOOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIA, VOLUME 7—PISCES: PETROMYZONTIDAE TO CARANGIDAE. By J. R. Paxton, D. F. Hoese, G. R. Allen and J. E. Hanley.
GUIDE TO THE PARASITES OF FISHES OF CANADA, PART III–ACANTHOCEPHALA (by H. P. Arai) and CNIDARIA (by M. N. Arai). Edited by L. Margolis and Z. Kabata.
PAPERS ON THE SYSTEMATICS OF GADIFORM FISHES. Edited by Daniel M. Cohen.
SCIENCE, LAW AND HUDSON RIVER POWER PLANTS; A CASE STUDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT. Edited by Lawrence W, Barnthous Ronald J, Klavada Douglas S. Vaughn and Robert L. Kendall.
THE LARVAE OF INDO-PACIFIC SHOREFISHES. By J. M. Leis and T. Trnski.
ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY, Volume 5. Edited by R. Gilles (Editor in Chief).
PARASITE COMMUNITIES: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES. Edited by G. W. Esch, A. 0. Bush and J. M. Aho.
THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF EUROPE, Volume 1, pa0 II. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO FISHES. ACIPENSERIFORMES. Edited by Juraj Holĉik.
BOOKS RECEIVED
A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE SEASHORE. By J. D. Fish and S. Fish.
AUDUBON WILDLIFE REPORT 1989/90. Edited by William J. Chandler.
DISEASE PROCESSES IN MARINE BIVALVE MOLLUSCS. Edited by William S. Fisher.
HAEMATOLOGY OF POND FISHES. By N. A. Golovina and I. D. Trombitsky.     

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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CADMIUM IN FRESH WATER, A BIBLIOGRAPHY, by J. Wallen, A. S. Wightman and W. Penning
ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND THE EVIDENCE. Edited by D. R. Stong, D. Simberloft, L G. Abele and A. B. Thistle
ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY, VOL. 21. Edited by J. H. S. Blaxter
ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FISH BACTERIAL PATHOGENS, by G. Nicolas Frerechs
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF FISHERY SCIENCE, by W. F. Royce
DEVELOPMENTS IN AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES SCIENCE 14, RECENT INNOVATIONS IN CULTIVATION OF PACIFIC MOLLUSCS. Edited by D. E. Morse, K. K. Chew and R. Mann
LAKE BIWA. Edited by Shoji Horie     

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Books reviewed in this article:
INORGANIC PLANT NUTRITION. Edited by A. L äuchli & R. L. B ieleski
HANDBOOK OF PLANT CELL CULTURE. VOL. I. TECHNIQUES FOR PROPAGATION AND BREEDING. Edited by D. A. E vans , W. R. S harp , P. V. A mmirato & Y. Y amada
TECHNIQUES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. Edited by J. M. W alker & W. G aastra
THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF GIBBERELLINS, VOLS I AND II. Edited by A lan C rozier
AZOSPIRILLUM II. Edited by W. K lingmuller
MATHEMATICAL MODELS IN AGRICULTURE. By J. F rance & J. H. M. T hornley
GENETIC ENGINEERING: APPLICATIONS TO AGRICULTURE. Edited by L. O wens
ALGAL SYMBIOSIS. Edited by L ynda J. G off     

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GIBBERELLINS–CHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY AND USE . Edited by J. R. L enton
BIOMONITORING AIR POLLUTANTS WITH PLANTS . By W. J. M anning & W. A. F eder
HORMONAL REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENT, I . Edited by J. M ac M illan
PLANT GROWTH SUBSTANCES . Edited by F. S koog
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY OF PHY-TOPLANKTON . Edited by I. M orris
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH JOHN INNES SYMPOSIUM. The Plant Genome and Second International Haploid Conference . Edited by D. R. D avies & D. A. H opwood
LOW TEMPERATURE STRESS IN CROP PLANTS: the role of the membrane . Edited by J ames M. L yons , D ouglas G raham & J ohn K. R aison
TRANSPORT IN PLANTS . By U lrich L üttge & N oe H iginbotham     

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FUNDAMENTALS OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Eds. R. K. Bames & K. H. Mann.
DANGEROUS MARINE ANIMALS, Bruce W. Halstead.
A KEY TO THE BRITISH FRESHWATER LEECHES-with notes on their life cycles and ecology, by J. M. Elliot & K. H. Mann.
A GUIDE TO METHODS FOR ESTIMATING MICROBIAL NUMBERS AND BIOMASS IN FRESHWATER, by J. Gwynfryn Jones.
BIOSYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE GENUS STENONEMA (EPHEMEROPTERA: HEPTAGENIIDAE), by A. F. Bednarik & W. P. M. McCafferty.
HYDROMEDUSAE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND PUGET SOUND by M. N. Arai & A. Brinkman-Voss.
WRITING A SCIENTIFIC PAPER, by Vernon Booth.
EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF MARINE FISH, THE EGG STAGE, by Professor Gotthilf Hempel.
ECOLOGY OF FRESH WATERS, by B. Moss.
SHRIMPS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF CANADA, by T. H. Butler.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY OF VASCULAR PLANTS. Edited by B. M. J ohri
ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL SAVANNAS (Ecological Studies, Volume 42). Edited by B. J. H untley & B. H. W alker
NITROGEN CYCLING IN ECOSYSTEMS OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Edited by G. P. R obertson , R. H errera & T. R osswall     

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A SYSTEMATIC LIST OF THE VERTEBRATES OF IRAQ by Nuri Mahdi and P.V. Georg.
STUDIES ON THE BLOOD SERUM OF THE EURYHALINE CYPRINODONT FISH FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS , ADAPTED TO FRESH OR TO SALT WATER by G. E. Pickford, F. Blake Grant and Bruce L. Urnminger.
CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY edited by Rolf Lange.
SYMPOSIUM ON SALMON AND TROUT IN STREAMS edited by T. G. Northcote.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MONOGENETIC TREMATODE LITERATURE OF THE WORLD 1758 TO 1969 by W. J. Hargis, Jr., A. R. Lawler, R. Morales-Alarno and D. E. Zwerner.     

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANT HORMONES . BY T. C. M OORE
STRESS PHYSIOLOGY IN CROP PLANTS . Edited by H. M USSELL & R. C. S TAPLES
CYCLIN PHENOMENA IN MARINE PLANTS AND ANIMALS , Edited by E. N AYLOR & R. G. H ARTNOLL
THE LIFE OF THE GREEN PLANT . By A. W. G ALSTON , P.J. D AVIES & R. L. S ATTER
KNOTT'S HANDBOOK FOR VEGETABLE GROWERS . 2nd Edition, by O SCAR A. L ORENZ & D ONALD N. M AYNARD
BIOGENESIS AND FUNCTION OF PLANT LIPIDS . Edited by P. M AZLIAK , P. B ENVENISTE , G. C OSTES & R. D OUCES
POTASSIUM RESEARCH—REVIEW & TRENDS . Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Potash Institute, Bern, Switzerland     

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Book reviewed in this article: ATLAS OF POLISH MAMMALS . Edited by Z. Pucek & J. Raczynski. PREDATORY BIRDS, PESTICIDES AND POLLUTION. By A. S. Cooke, A. A. Bell and M. B. Hass WALKER'S MAMM?ALS OF THE WORLD , 4th Edition. By R. M. Nowak and J. L. Paradiso. THE MAMMALS OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN SUBREGION. By Reay H. N. Smithers. MAMMAL ECOLOGY. By M. J. Delany, Blackie, Glasgow, LARGE MAMMALIAN CLAWED HERBIVORES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY. By Margery Chalifoux Coombs. PRIMATES OF THE WORLD. DISTRIBUTION, ABUNDANCE AND CONSERVATION. By Jaclyn H. Wolfheim THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAMMALS: VOLUME 1. Edited by D. Macdonald. George Allen & Unwin SEALS OF THE WORLD. By Judith E. King THE NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE ELK: ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT. By Douglas B. Houston. MacMillan AN IRISH BEAST BOOK-A NATURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND'S FURRED WILDLIFE. (2nd edn.). By J. S. Fairley ECHOLOCATION IN WHALES AND DOLPHINS. By P. E. Purves and G. E. Pilleri. COMMUNICATION AND BEHAVIOUR OF WHALES. Edited by Roger Payne. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE RHINOCEROS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE ON THE RECENT RHINOCEROSES IN CULTURE, HISTORY AND BIOLOGY. By L. C. Rookmaaker. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.     

Book Reviews

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Volume 14A, NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS IN PLANTS I . Edited by D. B oulter & B. P arthier
ECOLOGICAL BULLETINS 33. TERRESTRIAL NITROGEN CYCLES . Edited by F. E. C lark & T. R osswall
PEROXIDASES 1970–1980. A SURVEY OF THEIR BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES IN HIGHER PLANTS . By T. C aspar , C. L. P enel T. T horpe & H. G reppin
BASIDIUM AND BASIDIOCRP. EVOLUTION, CYTOLOGY, FUNCTION AND DEVELOPMENT . Edited by K enneth & E llinor W ells
THE BIOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN PLANTS , Edited by J. S. P ate & A. J. McC omb
CHEMICAL MANIPULATION OF CROP GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT , By J. S. MCL aren     

Book Reviews

EXPERIMENTS IN PLANT TISSUE CULTURE. By J. H. D odds & L. W. R oberts
BREEDING PLANTS FOR LESS FAVOURABLE ENVIRONMENTS. Edited by M. N. C hristiansen & C. F. L ewis
TECHNIQUES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES. TECHNIQUES IN CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY , Volume Pl/1. Edited by P. F. B aker
THE ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF ILLINOIS. FLOWERING PLANTS: BASSWOODS TO SPURGES . By R obert H. M ohlenbrock     

Short reviews

Milton M. Gordon, HUMAN NATURE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1978, 302 pp., £6.50, $11.95 ($3.50 paper).

June Teufel Dreyer, CHINA'S FORTY MILLIONS: MINORITY NATIONALITIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 pp., £9.55.

W. Stanford Reid (ed), THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN CANADA. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1976, xi + 324 pp., $12.55.

I. H. Kawharu, MAORI LAND TENURE: STUDIES OF A CHANGING INSTITUTION. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977, 362 pp., £13.50.

David T. Wellman, PORTRAITS OF WHITE RACISM. London, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 254 pp., £9.50 (£4.00 paper).

Lucy Mair, AFRICAN KINGDOMS. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977, 151 pp., £3.95, (£1.95 paper).

Roger Scott, NORTHERN IRELAND: THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE. Canberra Series in Administrative Studies 2., Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1977, 84 pp., n.p.

James A. Geschwender, CLASS, RACE AND WORKER INSURGENCY: THE LEAGUE OF BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS. London, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 249 pp., £8.50 (£3.50 paper).

Crawford Young, THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PLURALISM. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. 560 pp., £13.60.

D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN BRITISH FICTION. London, Macmillan, 1977, 282 pp., £8.95.

M. M. Mahood, THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER. London, Rex Collings, 1977, 210 pp., £4.75.

Brian V. Street, THE SAVAGE IN LITERATURE. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 207 pp., £5.75.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article:
ECOLOGY–POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS. By Tom Fenchel.
ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL OCEANS. By Alan R. Longhurst and Daniel Pauly.
FISHES OF THE GREAT BASIN: A NATURAL HISTORY. By W. F. Sigler and J. W. Sigler.
FISHERIES RESEARCH IN THE HUDSON RIVER. Edited by C. Lovett Smith.