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TREASE, George Edward, assisted by W. C. EVANS. A textbook of pharmacognosy. Edition 9, VIII, 821 pp., 241 figs., many tabs.; 1966. $ 10.00 (appr.) Baillière, Tindall and Cassell, London. In USA, The Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore 2, Maryland, U.S.A.

Textbook of Organic Chemistry. By Prof. Carl R. Noller (Stanford Univ.) W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London. Ed. 3. VII, 765 pp., many figs, and tabs.; 1966. $ 10.00.

DORLAND'S ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY. 24th Edition XXXVII, 1724 pp., 51 plates, 19 tables or sets of tables; W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, Penna. (U.S.A.) and London, England. $ 13.00 (cloth) or $ 17.00 (deluxe ed.).

ESDORN, Ilse. Die Nutzpflanzen der Tropen und Subtropen der Welt-wirtschaft. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany. VIII, 159 pp., 34 figs., many tabs.; 1961. Price bound DM 24.–($ 6.00).

DNA Model Kit. By Van R. Potter (Prof. Oncology, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc.). Burgess Publishing Co., 426 So. 6th St., Minneapolis 15, Minn. (U.S.A.) Several blue, yellow and green printed cards; pieces of plastic tubing; Instruction folder, 4 pp., 2 figs.; 1959. (reprinted 1963). $ 1.25.

ERDTMAN, C. –Pollen morphology and plant taxonomy. Angiosperms. (An introduction to palynology. 1). XIII, 553 pp., 262 figs., 1 col. pl. (frontispiece), 2 tabs.; 1966 (1952). $ 14.00 Hafner Publishing Company, Inc., 31 E. 10th St., New York, N.Y. 10003.

STRASBURGER: Lehrbuch der BOTANIK für Hochschulen. Ed. 29., Revised by D. von Denffer, W. Schumacher, K. Maegdefrau, and F. Firbas. XII, 762 pages, 931 text figures, 1 colored map, 16.4 £ 24.4 cm; 1967. DM 39, 50 (US $ 9.90). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany. Available in USA and Canada through: Intercontinental Medical Book Corporation, 381 Park Ave. South, New York 10016, N.Y., USA.

Prof. Robert W. Pennak. Collegiate Dictionary of Zoology. The Ronald Press Co., 15 East 26th St., New York, N.Y. 10010. VII, 583 pp., no figs. or tabs.; 1964. $ 8.50.