Volume 34 – Issue 3 (Sep 1969)

The Plantation referred to in “The Vegetation of the Baruch Plantation, Georgetown, South Carolina, in relation to soil types” (CASTANEA 34: 71-77, 1969), has long been known as Hobcaw Barony and the last paragraph of the introduction should read as follows:

“Eventually the plantation became the property of his daughter Miss Belle W. Baruch who in her will created the Foundation which she named after her father. The will specified that the Foundation was to be active in Education and Research in Forestry, Marine Biology and the care and propagation of wildlife flora and fauna in South Carolina in connection with colleges and/or universities in South Carolina.”

While on a field trip with members of the Greenville Natural History Association on May 10, 1969, the writer observed a colony of Diphylleia cymosa in the extreme northwestern corner of Oconee County, South Carolina.

This booklet of 176 pages contains the names of about 2400 crosses and has a bibliography of 1131 titles. It can be obtained from Dr. I. W. Knobloch, 336 University Dr., E. Lansing, Michigan, 48823 for $2.50 US and $3.00 foreign. The publication date is 1968.

In the article, “Weeds on an old race track . . .,” vol. 34, p. 57, paragraphs 2 and 3 are jumbled. Lines 12 to 15 should follow line 7. Lines 8 to 11 should follow line 17.

A worthwhile book. The author uses this method to make the reader “aware of microorganisms, especially of bacteria, . . .” Instead of writing another bacteriology text (of which there are plenty) he has presented those phases of bacteriology that are of general interest to biology as a whole.

These paperbacks, continuing the Reinhold “Selected Topics in Modern Biology”, are in some ways not equal to the previous issues.

The increase of knowledge, most particularly in the life sciences, has gone forward at such a breathless rate in the last few decades that educators can scarcely prepare generalizations fast enough for presentation to beginning students in college biology courses.

Nature lovers of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia are familiar with the newspaper columns on outdoor topics by Rufus Reed, who lives at a place called Lovely, Kentucky, and who has done his part in making Kentucky lovely through roadside beautification and the encouragement of conservation practices in a region where so much of the land has been despoiled in strip mining.

This little book with a very limited circulation was prepared as a preliminary survey of the natural history of the famous New Jersey Pine Barrens, a 2000-sq. mi. tract comprising the most extensive area of wild land in the Middle Atlantic Seaboard region.

One of the most unusual books on birds, very light, very welcome in an age of too much gravity, has just been published by Golden Press.