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Quarterly Review of Biology, 10. 



Kevista de entomologia, 6. 



Royal Society, Proceedings (series B), 119. 



Scientia, 29. 



Zeitschrift fiir Morphologic und Okologie der 



Tiere, 12. 

 Zoogeograpliica (founded 1932; irregular 



volumes ) . 

 Zoogeographica Argentina (founded 1942). 

 Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, 105. 

 Zoologische Jahrbiicher. Abteilung fiir Systema- 



tik, okologie und Geographic der Tiere, 



67. 



C. Review articles of ecological interest 

 published between 1931 and 1942 in the 

 Quarterly Review of Biology, 



Johnson, G. E.: Hibernation in Mammals, 1931. 



Cause, G. F,: Ecology of Populations, 1932. 



Gulick, A.: Biological Pecuharities of Oceanic 

 Islands, 1932. 



Allen, W. E.: The Primary Food Supply of the 

 Sea, 1934. 



Cravv^ord, S. C: The Habits and Charac- 

 teristics of Nocturnal Animals, 1934. 



Higgins, E.: Fishery Biology. Its Scope, De- 

 velopment and Apphcations, 1934. 



Severtzott, S. A.: On the Dynamics of Popula- 

 tions of Vertebrates, 1934. 



Pearl, R., and Miner, J. R.: The Comparative 

 Mortality of Certain Lower Organisms, 

 1935. 



Taylor, W. P.: Significance of the Biotic Com- 

 munity in Ecological Studies, 1935a. 



Cause, G. F.: The Principles of Biocoenology, 

 1936. 



Bodenheimer, F. S.: Seasonal Population 

 Trends of the Honey-Bee, 1937a. 



McAtee, W. L.: Survival of the Ordinary, 

 1937. 



Clarke, G. L.: The Relation between Diatoms 

 and Copepods as a Factor in the Pro- 

 ductivity of the Sea, 1939b. 



Hammond, E. C: Biological Effects of Popu- 

 lation Density in Lower Organisms, Part 

 1, 1938; Part 2, 1939. 



Gait, W.: The Principle of Cooperation in Be- 

 havior, 1940. 



Lindsey, A. A.: Recent Advances in Antarctic 

 Bio-geography, 1940. 



Park, T.: The Laboratory Population as a Test 

 of a Comprehensive Ecological System, 

 1941. 



Davis, D. E.: The Phylogeny of Social Nesting 

 Habits in the Crotophaginae, 1942. 



D. Synthesis articles representative of the 

 several fields of ecology published between 

 1931 and 1942. These papers seem to us to be 

 contributions to thinking as well as to fact 

 finding. They are arranged according to the 

 four categories listed on page 67, tull cita- 

 tion is given in the Bibfiography. 



1. THE COMMUNITY 



Taylor, VV. P.: Significance of the Biotic Com- 

 munity in Ecological Studies, 1935. 



Cause, G. F.: The Principles ot Biocoenology, 

 1936. 



Lucas, C. E.: Some Aspects of Integration in 

 Plankton Communities, 1938. 



Carpenter, J. R.: Recent Russian Work on 

 Community Ecology, 1939." 



Gleason, H. A.: The Inclividuafistic Concept of 

 the Plant Association, 1939. 



Park, O.: Nocturnafism— The Development of a 

 Problem, 1940. 



2. POPULATION PROBLEMS 



Hogben, L.: Some Biological Aspects of the 



Population Problem, 1931. 

 Chapman, R. N.: The Cause of Fluctuations of 



Populations of Insects, 1933. 

 Hjort, ]., Jahn G., and Ottestad, P.: The 



Optimum Catch, 1933. 

 Nicholson, A. J.: The Balance of Animal 



Populations, 1933. 

 Ottestad, P.: A Mathematical Method for the 



Study of Growth, 1933. 

 Allee, W. C: Recent Studies in Mass Physi- 

 ology, iy34a. 

 Smith, H. S.: The Role of Biotic Factors in 



the Determination of Population Densities, 



1935. 

 Errington, P. L.: What Is the Meaning of 



Predation? 1937a. 

 Ford, J.: Research on Populations of Tribolium 



confusum and Its Bearing on Ecological 



Theory: A Summary, 1937. 

 MacLuHch, D. A.: Fluctuations in the Numbers 



of the Varying Hare, Lepiis aniericanus, 



1937. 

 McAtee, W. L.: Survival of the Ordinary, 



1937. 

 Pearl, R.: On Biological Principles Afi^ecting 



Populations: Human and Other, 1937. 



" There has been much Russian work in ecol- 

 ogy pubhshed during the last ten years or so. 

 Unfortunately, and because of language diffi- 

 culties, this is essentially inaccessible to Ameri- 

 can ecologists. This is a pity. AU concerned 

 would benefit if the data and conclusions of 

 such books, papers, and journals could be 

 studied. Elton recognized the point for English 

 ecologists in his 1942 book (p. 69) when he 

 said, "Few scientists outside Russia seem to be 

 aware of the phenomenal growth of ecological 

 research under the auspices of the U.S.S.R., 

 especially during the last ten years. Even con- 

 sidered only as a scheme of organization on 

 paper, these new developments take one's 

 breath away. A whole generation of well- 

 trained workers is growing up and beginning 

 to produce research of a high order. Car- 

 penter's paper forms a very useful guide to the 

 organization of this work." 



