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Ruth Moore et al. EVOLUTION. — Time Incorporated, New York. Distributed by Silver Burdett Company, Morristown, New Jersey. 192 pp., many figs. and plates (unnumbered); 1962. $ 3.94 plus postage. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
STRASBURGER'S LEHRBUCH DER BOTANIK FÜR HOCHSCHULEN. — 28th Edition. — Revised by Richard HARDER, Franz FIRBAS, Walter SCHUMACHER and Dietrich von DENFFER. — XII, 732 pp., 982 text figs., 1 colored map. octavo; cloth bound; 1962. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. DM 35.—. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Albert von Haller: THE VITAMIN HUNTERS. (Translation from the German by Hella Freud Bernays). — Chilton Books, Chestnut at 56th st., Philadelphia 39, Penna. XI, 307 pp., published July 18, 1962. $ 5.95. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
W. D. HANSON and H. F. ROBINSON (editors). STATISTICAL GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING. A Symposium and Workshop sponsored by the Committee on Plant Breeding and Genetics of the Agricultural Board at the North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., March 20—29, 1961. — National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Publn. 982: XV, 624 pp., many figs., tables, and bibliographies. 1963. Price $ 15.00. (NAS-NRC. 2101 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418). Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
CARNOY, A. Dictionnaire é tymologique des noms grecs de plantes. — Univ. de Louvain, Inst. Orientaliste, Bibliothè que du Museon, vol. 46: XI, 277 pp.; brochure (paper bound); 1959. Publ. Editions Nauwelaerts s.p.r.l., 2, place Cardinal-Mercier, Louvain, Belg. Price 400 FB (Belgian francs). Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
T. SWAIN: CHEMICAL PLANT TAXONOMY. — Academic Press, Inc. (London) Ltd., Publishers, Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, London W1, England. — IX, 543 pp., many tabs, and figs.; 1963. 110 Sb. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
HARROW, Benjamin (Ph.D.) and MAZUR, Abraham (Ph.D.). TEXTBOOK OF BIOCHEMISTRY. — Ed. 8. VI. 651 pp., 116 figs., 86 tabs., index; May 17, 1962. $ 7.75. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, Penna., U.S.A.; London, England. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
DOCTOR ROBERT C. KING: GENETICS. — XIV, 347 pp., frontispiece, 131 figs., 32 tabs., 2 end paper figs. (Drosophila, Zea). Oxford University Press, 417 Fifth Ave., New York 16, N.Y. $ 7.50. 1962. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Falconer, D. S.: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE GENETICS. — IX, 365 pp., many figs, and tabs.; 1960. The Ronald Press Company, 15 E. 26th Str., New York, 10; $ 6.—. (Also published in Great Britain). Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Professor Herbert Parkes Riley (Univ. Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.) — FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 1963. XVIII, 269 pp., 3 maps, 144 col. pls., cloth bound, folio; University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, Ky. $ 14.00. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Richard Kwizda: VOCABULARIUM NOCENTIUM FLORAE, dictionary of plant pests and diseases. Ed. 4. 128 pp. Quarto. Card covers. Springer Verlag, Moelkerbastei 5, Wien, Austria. 1963. $ 9.95. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR REAGENTS. Mentioned in the International Pharmacopoeia. — World Health Organization, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 267 pp. Price 1.10 s., $ U.S. 6.00, or Sw.fr. 18.— (cloth bound). English edition. (French and Spanish editions are in preparation.) Available through N.V. Martinus Nijhoff's Boekhandel en Uitgevers Maatschappij, Lange Voorhout 9, The Hague, Netherlands. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
L. Zechmeister (Editor). PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. — Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe. — Progrè s dans la Chimie des Substances Organiques Naturelles. Vol. 21: VII, 362 pp., octavo; 1963. 14 figs. Springer-Verlag in Wien 1, Austria, Moelkerbastei 5. Cloth bound. $ 19.00. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Barnett, S. A. and McClaren, Anne, editors. PENGUIN SCIENCE SURVEY, 1963-B. Penguin Books, Baltimore, Md.; Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. 242 pp., 8 pls., 42 figs., paper bound; 1963. $ 1.65. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Wilfred W. Robbins, T. Elliot Weier, and C. Ralph Stocking: BOTANY, AN INTRODUCTION TO PLANT SCIENCE. Editio 3. ix, 614 pp., many figs, and tabs.; 1964. — sh 68/—. John Wiley and Sons, Glen House, Stag Place, London S.W.I. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.
Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., and Richard Alpert, Ph.D.: THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE; A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. University Books, New Hyde Park, New York. 159 pp., 1964. $ 5.00. Reviewed by G. M. Hocking.