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INTRODUCTION TO TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. J. A. Sutherland. Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd, Sydney and London, 1971. ISBN O 207 12204 O. pp. xiv + 242. Price £1.80.

CROP PRODUCTION IN DRY REGIONS. VOLUMES I and II. I. Arnon. Leonard Hill, London, 1972. VOLUME I. BACKGROUND AND PRINCIPLES. pp. xxii + 650, pi. 36, Figs 99. Price £9.50.

VOLUME II. SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL CROPS. pp. xxiii + 683, pl. 33, Figs 116. Price £10.50.

INSTITUTIONS IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Melvin G. Blase. lowa State University Press, Ames, lowa, 1971. pp. xii + 247. Price £2.62.

THE GREEN REVOLUTION. Stanley Johnson. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972. SBN 241 02102 2. pp. xiii + 218, pl. 8. Price £2.75.

HANDBOOK FOR PHYTOSANITARY INSPECTORS IN AFRICA. L. Caresche, G. S. Cotterell, J. E. Peachey, R. W. Rayner and H. Jacques-Felix with appendices by P. Defrance, D. W. Hall and Paul Neergaard. Organization of African Unity and Scientific, Technical, and Research Commission, P.M.B. 2359, Lagos, Nigeria, 1969. pp. 444, figs. 71. Price US$10.

COTTON. Technical Monograph No. 3. Ciba-Geigy Ltd, Basle, Switzerland, 1972. pp. 80.

RICE, SCIENCE AND MAN. Papers presented at the Tenth Aniversary Celebration of the International Rice Research Institute, April 20–21,1972. The International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines, 1972. pp. 163.

IR8 AND BEYOND. Steven A. Breth. International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines, 1972. pp. 24.

TRAINING MANUAL FOR RICE PRODUCTION. Vo-Tong Xuan and Vernon E. Ross. International Rice Research Institute, Laguna, 1972. pp. 141. Price p4.00 or US$2.00.

PESTS OF COCOA. P. F. Entwistle. Tropical Science Series. Longman, London, 1972. ISBN 0 582 46657 1. pp. xxiv + 779, pl. 65. Price £15.00.

MEMOIRES ORSTOM 53. CONTRIBUTION A L'ÉATUDE ETHOLOGIQUE DU PEUPLEMENT D'INSECTES D'UN MILIEU HERBAGÉ. M. Roth. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique de Outre-Mer, Paris, 1971. pp. 118. Price 50F.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD BRITISH PEST CONTROL CONFERENCE, ST. HELIER, JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS, OCTOBER 5–8 1971. British Pest Control Association, Alembic House, 93 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TU. pp. 162. Price £5.00 post free.

A REVISED AND ANNOTATED LIST OF PLANT DISEASES IN MALAWI. W. T. H. Peregrine and M. A. Siddiqi. Phytopathological Paper No. 16, 1972. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England. SBN 85198 264 6. pp. 51. Price £0.80.

THE STRUCTURE OF NEMATODES. Alan F. Bird. Academic Press Inc., New York and London, 1971. ISBN 0 12 099650 2. pp. 318. Price £7.70.

C.I.H. DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANT–PARASITIC NEMATODES, Set I, Nos. 1-15. Edited by Sheila Willmott, P. S. Gooch, M. R. Siddiqi and Mary Franklin. Issued by the Commonwealth Institute of Helminthology, 103 St. Peter's Street, St. Albans, Herts, England. Price £2.00.

A LIST OF FUNGI AND PLANT PARASITIC BACTERIA, VIRUSES AND NEMATODES IN FIJI. I. D. Firman. Phytopathological Paper No. 15, 1972. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England. SBN 85198 263 8. pp. 36. Price £0.60.

ECOLOGY OF SOIL FUNGI. D. M. Griffin, Chapman and Hall Ltd. London, 1972. SBN 412 11100 4. pp. ix + 193. Refs 535. Price £2.80.

MICROBIAL TOXINS. VOLUME VII. ALGAL AND FUNGAL TOXINS. Edited by Solomon Kadis, Alex Ciegler and Samuel J. Ajl. Academic Press Inc., New York and London, 1971. ISBN 0 12 046507 8. pp. xviii + 401. Price £10.25 (US$22.00).

BASIC MICROBIOLOGY VOLUME 1. INTRODUCTION TO MICROBIOLOGY. J. F. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, London, Edinburgh and Melbourne, 1972. ISBN 0 632 08270 4. pp. 120. Price £1.50.

TROPICAL WEEDS (MALEZAS TROPICALES). VOLUME 1. Juan Cardenas, Carlos E. Reyes and Jerry D. Doll. Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario, Bogota, Colombia and International Plant Protection Center, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. 1972. pp. 341. Available from IPPC, ICA and COMALFI. Price US$3.50 including surface postage.

AQUATIC WEEDS (MALEZAS AQUATICAS). J. M. Bristow, J. Cardenas, T. M. Fullerton and J. Sierra. Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario, Bogota and International Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. 1972. pp. 116.

PROBING PLANT STRUCTURE. John Troughton and Lesley A. Donaldson. Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1972. pp. 116. Price £1.75.

PESTICIDE MANUAL. Third Edition. Edited by Hubert Martin. British Crop Protection Council, 1972. Obtainable from Mr A. W. Billitt, Clacks Farm, Boreley, Ombersley, Droitwich, Worcester, England. pp. viii + 535. Price £7.00 postage paid.

PESTICIDES IN THE MODERN WORLD. Cooperative Programme of Agro-Allied Industries, London and FAO, Rome. 1972. pp. 59. Free. Available in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.

MANUAL OF PESTICIDE APPLICATION EQUIPMENT. Edited by A. E. Deutsch and A. P. Poole. International Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972. pp. 135, Figs 30. Price US$4.00.

THE GREEN BOOK VOLUME 21, No. 44. Edited by H. Catling. Thomas Reed Industrial Press Ltd, London, EC1A 9BY. 1972. Annual subscription £5 (two editions p.a.).