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useful as well as harmful insects, insecticides, and crops. Seventy-two color plates 

 of economically important insects. Extensive bibliography. 



VON Frisch, Karl: Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language. Ithaca, N. Y., 

 Cornell University Press. 1950. A fascinating account. 



VON Frisch, Karl: The Dancing Bees. New York, Harcourt. Brace & Co.. 1955. 



Wheeler. W. M.: Social Life among the Insects. New York, Harcourt Brace & Co., 

 1923. 



Wheeler, W. M.: The Social Insects, Their Origin and Evolution. New York, Harcourt 

 Brace & Co., 1928. Wheeler's books stand high in literary flavor as well as upon 

 his deep understanding of social insects. 



Wigglesworth, V. B.: The Principles of Insect Physiology, 4th ed. London, Methuen 

 & Co., 1950. 



Wigglesworth, V. B.: The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis. Cambridge. England, 

 Cambridge University Press. 1954. 



ZiNNSER. Hans: Rats, Lice and History. New York, Pocket Books, Inc., 1945. Wit, 

 poetry, historical and biological facts. From the preface: ". . . art and sciences 

 have much in common and both may profit by mutual appraisal." Among the 

 chapter subjects: a discussion of the relationship between science and art; on 

 parasites and old and new diseases; on the louse; the birth, childhood and adoles- 

 cence of typhus fever. 



Bailey. L.: "The Action of the Proventriculus of the Worker Honeybee. Apis mellifera 

 L." The Journal of Experimental Biology (British), 29:310-327 (1952). 



Waterman, T. H.: "Flight Instruments in Insects," American Scientist, 38:222-238 



(1950). 

 Waterman. T. H.: "Polarized Light Navigation by Arthropods," Transactions of the 



New York Academy of Sciences, 14:11-14 (1951). 



31. MoLLUSKS — Specialists in Security 



Black. J. D.: Biological Conservation. New York. The Blakiston Co.. 1954. Wild life is 

 interpreted to include invertebrates and other animals outside the game types. A 

 practical introduction to conservation. 



MacGinitie, G. E., and N. MacGinitie: Natural History of Marine Animals. New 

 York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1949. Interesting, authentic and a pleasure to read. 



Miner. R. W.: Fieldbook of Seashore Life. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1950. An 

 excellent fully illustrated guide to the common invertebrates of the Atlantic coast. 



Morgan, A. H.: Fieldbook of Ponds and Streams. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 

 1930. A brief chapter on the snails and mussels. 



RiCKETTS, E. F., and J. Calvin: Between Pacific Tides, rev. ed. Stanford, Calif.. Stan- 

 ford University Press. 1948. An account of the habits and habitats of the common 

 invertebrates of the Pacific coast. 



Alexander, A. E.: "Pearls through Artifice," Scientific American, 160:228-229 (April, 

 1939). 



Grave, B. H.: "Natural History of the Shipworm, Teredo navulis, at Woods Hole, 

 Massachusetts," Biological Bulletin, 55:260-282 (1928). 



GuNTER. G.: "The Generic Status of Living Oysters and the Scientific Name of the 

 Common American Species; Placed by Gunter as Crassostrea virginica," American 

 Midland Naturalist, 43:438-449 (1950). 



KoRRiNGA. P.: "Recent Advances in Oyster Biology," Quarterly Review of Biology, 

 27:266-308; 339-365 (1952). An excellent survey of many aspects of the biology 

 of oysters including "The American Oyster" known in many books as Ostrea vir- 

 ginica recently placed by some authors in a different genus, by Korringa as 

 Gryphaea virginica, by Gunter as Crassostrea virginica. 



32. ECHINODERMS FORERUNNERS OF THE VERTEBRATES 



Agassiz, Elizabeth C: Louis Agassiz, His Life and Correspondence. Boston, Houghton, 

 Mifflin and Co., 1886. Agassiz kindled the spirit and built the foundation of the 

 teaching of zoology in the United States. He was also an investigator and teacher 



