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GENERAL OCEANOGRAPHY 
A. Technical 
Oceanography; an introduction to the marine 
sciences, Jerome Williams. Boston, Little, 
Brown, 1962. 22 p. $8.00. college 
textbook. 
The Oceams; their physics, chemistry, and 
general biology, Harold Ulrik Sverdrup and 
ethers. Wew York, Prentic-Hall, 1962. 
1087 p. $20.00. technical treatise. 
Oceanography; invited lectures presented at 
the International Oceanographic Congress, 
edited by Mary Sears. Washington, 1961. 
645 p. (American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. Publication no. 67). 
$14.75. Thirty articles by experts on a 
wide range of oceanographic problems. 
Proceedings of the Symposium on Aspects of 
Deep Sea Research. . . edited by William 
Stelling von Arx. Washington, 1957. 1681p. 
(National Academy of Sciences-National 
Research Council. Publication no.l\73). 
$1.75 
Ocean Geography for Oceanographers, Cuchlaine 
A. M. King. New York, St. Martin's Press, 
1963. 336 p. In press. 
Gulf of Mexico; its origin, waters, and 
marine life, edited by Paul Simon Galtsoff. 
Washington, G.P.0., 1954. 604 p. (U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service. Fishery bulletin 
89). $3.25 from Government Printing Office. 
B. For the Adult pee and High School 
Student (ages up). 
This Great and Wide Sea; an introduction to 
oceanography and marine biology, Robert 
Ervin Coker. New York, Harper, 1962. 325 p. 
$2.25. Reprint of a very easy college text, 
197. 
The Sea, Leonard Engel. New York, Time, Inc., 
1961. 190 p. (LIFE nature library). $3.25. 
This beautiful book features many colored 
pictures and fine maps, and will be enjoyed 
by both adults and children. 
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Louise Carson. 
Rev.ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 
1961. 237 p. $5.00. A famous best-seller 
dealing mostly with physical and geological 
oceanography. 
The Sea and its Mysteries, John S. Colman. 
New York, Norton, 1950. 285 p. $3.75. 
Concise summary. 
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Coaste, Waves and Weather, for Navigators. 
Jehn Quincy Stewart. Boston, Ginn, 195. 
The Arctic Ocean, P. A. Gordienko. (Scien- 
tific American, vol.20h, no.5, May 1961, 
pp.88-102). An account of Russian 
investigations. 
The Antarctic Ocean, V. G. Kort. (Seientific 
American, vol.207, no.3, Sept. 1962, pp.113- 
28). Resulte of Russian research. 
Frontiers of the Sea; the story of oceano- 
graphic exploration, Robert C. Cowen. 
Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1960. 
307 p. $4.95. Fine; this and the next 
seven titles emphasize the research now 
going on. 
Turn to the Sea, Athelstan Frederick 
Spilhaus. Washington, National Academy of 
Sciences-National Research Council, 1959. 
ly p. Pamphlet on the importance of study- 
ing the oceans. 
Conquest of the Sea, Cord-Christian Troebst. 
New York, Harper, 1962. 269 p. $4.95. An 
account of the sea as a possible seat of 
military action, and as a source of minerals, 
power, and food, and of the research needed 
to understand the sea. 
Ocean Science and National Security; report 
of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, 
U. S. House of Representatives, 86th 
Congress, 2d Session. Washington, G.P.0. 
1960. 180 p. (Report no. 2078, serial H). 
Oceanography, 1960 to 1970. Washington, 
National Academy of Sciences-National 
Research Council, Committee on Oceanography, 
1959-1962. 12 parts. Free. Describes the 
personnel, ships, equipment, and research 
needs of oceanography over the next ten 
years. 
National Oceanographic Program, Fiscal Year 
1963. Washington, 1962. 31p. (U.S. 
Interagency Committee on Oceanography. ICO 
pamphlet no. 3). Free. 
Exploring the Secrets of the Sea, William 
J. Cromie. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 
Prentice-Hall 1962. 300 p. $5.95. Fine; 
on the present state of our knowledge of 
the ocean and how that knowledge has been 
gained. 
The Global Sea, Harris Bates Stewart, Jr. 
Princeton, New Jersey, Van Nostrand, 1963. 
128 p. In preparation. A summary of recent 
advances in oceanography and why a knowledge 
of the ocean is important to our life on 
land. 
