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COHORT FERTILITY: NATIVE‐WHITE WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: P. K. Whelpton, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1954, XXV + 492 pp. $6.00.

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND POPULATION IN TAIWAN: George W. Barclay, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1954, xviii, 274 pp., $5.00.     

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The Melting Pot and the Altar: Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth‐Century Wisconsin: By Richard M. Bernard. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1980. Pp. xxviii, 162. Graphs, notes, bibliography, index. $17.50.

Identical Twins Reared Apart: A Re‐analysis: By Susan L. Färber. Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1981. 383 pp.

The Political Implications of Human Genetic Technology: By Robert H. Blan, Westview Special Studies in Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 1981. $25.25     

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THE PALEOGENE OF ASIA: MAMMALS AND STRATIGRAPHY, by Donald E. Russell and Zhai Ren‐jie. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Sciences de la Terre. Tome 52. 1987. 469 pp. and 232 figs. Price: 300 F. (about 50 US$).

FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON MESOZOIC TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, DRUMHELLER, ALBERTA, CANADA. AUGUST 10–14, 1987. SHORT PAPERS, edited by P. J. Currie and E. H. Koster (1987). Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, No. 3: 239pp. (ISBN 0–7732–0047–9).

GENETICS, PALEONTOLOGY AND MACROEVOLUTION by Jeffrey Levinton. Cambridge University Press, 637pp. ISBN‐0–521 24933 3 Price £27.50. Published Spring 1988.     

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HACCP: A P ractical A pproach (1994). By S. Mortimore and C. Wallace.
M olecular B iology of A rchaea (1994). Edited by F. Pfeiffer, P. Palm and K.-H. Schleifer.
R otaviruses (1994). Edited by R.F. Ramig.
P ower U nseen : H ow M icrobes R ule the W orld (1994). By B. Dixon.
V iruses and C ancer (1994). Edited by A. Minson, J. Niel and M. McCrae.
W ater M icrobiology (1994). By G. Bitton.
H andbook for R hizobia : M ethods in L egume - Rhizobium T echnology (1994). By P. Somasegaran and H.J. Hoben.
S tatistics and E xperimental D esign : A n I ntroduction for B iologists and B iochemists (1994). 3rd Edition. By G.M. Clarke
P rinciples of G ene M anipulation : A n I ntroduction to G enetic E ngineering (1994). 5th Edition. By R.W. Old and S.B. Primrose.
R espiratory I nfections : D iagnosis and M anagement (1994). Third edition. Edited by J.E. Pennington.
O bstetric and G ynecologic I nfectious D isease (1994). Edited by J.G. Pastorek II.
M olecular G enetics of B acteria (1994). 2nd Edition. By J.W. Dale.
B acterial P athogenesis : P art A: I dentification and R egulation of V irulence F actors (1994). Methods in Enzymology, Volume 235. Edited by V.L. Clark and P.M. Bavoil
B acterial P athogenesis : P art B: I nteraction of P athogenic B acteria with H ost C ells (1994). Methods in Enzymology, Volume 236. Edited by V.L. Clark and P.M. Bavoil.
M ononuclear P hagocytes : B iology of M onocytes and M acrophages (1992). Edited by R. van Furth.     

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International Journal of Biometeorology -     

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THE NORTH SEA: CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY, Edited by M. M. Sibthorp. Published for the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, by Europa Publications Ltd. 1975, 324 pp. £6.95.

MAMMALS OF THE SEA; INSTINCT AND INTELLIGENCE; PHARAOHS OF THE SEA; Jacques Cousteau, 1975, Angus and Robertson, London. All £2.80.

PYCNOGONIDS, P. E. King, 1974, St. Martin's Press, New York. $8.95.

GEOGRAPHICAL AND SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF MARINE PLANKTON. Edited by Zh. A. Zvereva. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Zoological Institute (Translated from Russian—Israel Programme for Scientific translations, Jerusalem, 1975). 303 pp.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
P rocedure M anual for C linical B acteriology : A nnotated (1982) D. Branson.
A quatic P ollution : A n I ntroductory T ext (1981) E.A. Laws
S tatistics and N umerical M ethods in BASIC for B iologists (1982). J.D. Lee & T.D. Lee.
M icrobes , M an and A nimals (1982) A.H. Linton.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
THE CHONDRIOME: CHLOROPLAST AND MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES. Edited by S. H. M antell , G. P. C hapman and P. F. S. S treet
THE BIOLOGY OF SYMBIOSIS. By D. C S mith and A. E. D ouglas
THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANT DISEASE. By R. N. G oodman , Z. K iraly and K. R. W ood     

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Bowden, C. (1986): Blue Desert. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 180 pp. cloth. $ 16.95.

ZWINGER, A. (1983): A Desert Country Near the Sea. A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 399 pp. with many black‐and‐white photos and figures, paperback. $ 12.95.

SCOTT, J.A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. A Natural History and Field Guide. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA. 584 pp, 64 color plates, many distribution maps and line drawings in the text. Cloth $ 49.50 net.

JACKSON, M.H. (1985): Galapagos ‐ A Natural History Guide. The University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 283 pp. including over 100 black‐and‐white photos and illustrations and 16 pp full color insert. Paperback $ 17.50 net.

MOONEY, H.A. & J.A. DRAKE (eds.) (1986): Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii. Ecological Studies vol. 58. Springer Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg. 321 pp. with many figs, tables. Cloth DM 148.00.

ZEIL, W. (1986): Südamerika. Geologie der Erde, Band 1. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart. 160 pp. with 54 figs, 4 colour plates and 3 tables, paperback. DM 24.80.

REGÖS, J. (1987): Die grüne Hölle ‐ ein bedrohtes Paradies. Verlag P. Parey, Hamburg und Berlin, W. Germany. 130 pp. many colour photos, cloth, DM 39.80.