The legend under the photograph of Roland M. Harper (March, 1967, issue, p. 3) should read: Roland M. Harper, University, Ala. April 20, 1948.
The legend under the photograph of Roland M. Harper (March, 1967, issue, p. 3) should read: Roland M. Harper, University, Ala. April 20, 1948.
This very significant work is an important companion volume to the Reinhold “Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences,” published six years ago. More than 40,000 definitions are included, covering the entire spectrum of the life sciences. Most taxa of plants and animals are included, down to the rank of family.
Dr. W. Junk, Publishers, have made an important contribution to the literature of plant ecology and palynology through their recent publication of the proceedings of an international symposium held in 1962 at Stolzenau/-Weser, Germany.
This is a nontechnical manual intended for the amateur naturalist or field biologist and should serve well in identifying many marine, freshwater and terrestrial forms.
Using letters and research papers of modern biologists, Editor Carlson has here attempted to show the build-up of our present sciences from their beginnings.
This paperback volume is an excellent practical course in statistics. It is designed to show the non-statistician how to select the proper experiment for his work, and is set up to enable him to then interpret that experiment. For the practical biologist interested in learning about his organism rather than learning pure statistics, this would seem to be an excellent start.
This is one of a series of paperbacks called Current Concepts in Biology, published by the Macmillan Company. This book concerns the history of virology, and its development; as our knowledge of Molecular Biology developed, more and more virology became apparent and possible. Chapters of the book deal with methods of studying viruses, such as assay, purification, genetics, etc., and the book ends with a chapter concerning the place of viruses in evolution and biological understanding. It would seem to be an excellent and modern treatise on this group of organisms.
A recent addition to the Fundamentals of Botany Series, this is an excellent review of the field of taxonomy. The author begins with elementary material, such as nomenclature, keys, and classification, and goes from there into variation patterns, and taxonomic characteristics relating these. The four middle chapters are perhaps the best of the book, in which taxonomic variation is analysed, and modern methods of studying it and presenting it are given. The book ends with some representative plant family summaries, and a glossary and reference bibliography.
One of the best genetics books seen by this: reviewer is Singleton’s second edition. There are more examples, pictures, charts, and used experimental results in this book, than in any other seen to date.
This is the final volume in the Wiley triangle of biology texts, covering the Biology of Cells, the Biology of Organisms, and the Biology of Populations. It is done with the same care and in the same manner as the previous two volumes.