NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 1 83 
Submarine Physiography of the U. S. Continental 
Margins, G. F. Jordan. Washington, G.P.0., 
1962. 28 p. (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Technical bulletin, no. 18). $0.20. 
The Continental Shelf, Henry C. Stetson. 
(Scientific American, vol. 192, no.3, March 
1955, pp.82-86). U. S. Coasts. 
The Origin of Submarine Canyons, Bruce C. 
Heezen. (Scientific American, vol.195, no.2, 
Aug. 1956, pp.36-1). 
The Physical Geography of Beaches and Coast- 
lines, Ronald Kay Gresswell. London, Hulton 
Educational Publications, 1957. 128 p. 
Most interesting and useful, despite its 
British slant. 
Beaches, Willard Bascom. (Scientific Amer- 
ican, vol. 203, no.2, Aug. 1960, pp.80-92). 
Our Changing Atlantic Coastline, Nathaniel T. 
Kenney. (National Geographic Magazine, vol. 
122, no.6, Dec. 1962, pp.860-87). The effects 
of the storm of March 7, 1962, on the coast 
between Long Island and Cape Hatteras. 
Florida Dunes and Scrub; vegetation and 
geology, Herman Kurz. Tallahassee, 192. 
15h p. (Florida. Geological Survey. Geo- 
logical bulletin, no.23). Coastal geology 
and ecology. 
Oregon's Sidewalk on the Sea, Paul A. Zahl. 
(National Geographic Magazine, vol. 120, 
no.5, Nov. 1961, pp.208-34). Biology, agate 
collecting. 
The Fiord Region of East Greenland, Louise 
Arner Boyd. New York, 1935. 369 p. (Amer- 
ican Geographic Society. Special publ. no.18). 
Finely illustrated account of a glaciated 
coast. 
The Coastline of England and Wales in Pictures; 
James Alfred Steers. Cambridge, Eng., Univer- 
sity Press, 1960. 145 p. Splendid picture 
book; although they are concerned only with 
the British coasts, this and the following 
charming volume may intrigue American readers. 
The Sea Coast, James Alfred Steers. London. 
Collins, 1953. 276 p. 
THE MOHOLE 
A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea; the story 
of the Mohole project, Willard Bascom. 
Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1961. 
352 p. $4.95. All about the hole to be 
drilled into the sea bottom, where the earth's 
crust is thinnest, to determine the nature of 
the original rock making up the earth's 
interior. 
The Mohole, Willard Bascom. (Scientific 
American, vol. 200, no.4, April 1959, pp. 
41-9). 
Scientists Drill at Sea to Pierce Earth's 
Crust, Samuel W. Matthews. (National 
Geographic Magazine, vol. 120, no.5, Nov. 
1961, pp.686-97). Easy, with many pictures. 
Experimental Drilling in Deep Water at La 
Jolla and Guadalupe Sites. Washington 1961. 
183 p. (National Academy of Sciences-Na- 
tional Research Council. Publication no. 
914). $3.00. 
Design for a Deep Ocean Drilling Ship. 
Washington, 1962. 173 p. (National Academy 
of Sciences-National Research Council. 
Publication no.848). O.p. 
ISLANDS AND CORAL REEFS. 
Atoll Environment and Ecology. Herold Jacob 
Wiens. New Haven, Yale University Press, 
1962. 532 p. $15.00. Geology, geography, 
and natural history of a large number of 
tropical islands. 
Handbook for Atoll Research, Francis Raymond 
Fosberg and M. H. Sachet. Washington, 1953. 
129 p. (National Research Council. Pacific 
Science Board. Atoll research bulletin, 
no.17). How to investigate, collect, and 
photograph. 
Coral Island; portrait of an atoll, Marston 
Bates and D. P. Abbott. New York. Scribner, 
1958. 254 p. $4.95. Charming account of a 
scientific survey of Ifaluk, in the Caroline 
Islands. 
Coral Reefs and Atolls, John Stanley Gardiner. 
London, Macmillan, 1931. 181 p. 
The Coral Reef Problem, William Morris Davis. 
New York. 1928. 596 p. (American Geograph- 
ical Society. Special publication no.9). 
Somewhat technical but informative survey of 
the world's coral reefs; emphasizes geology. 
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 
Charles Robert Darwin. Berkeley, University 
of California Press, 1962. 214 p. $1.95. 
A classic, first published in 182. since 
proven correct by recent research. 
A Year on the Great Barrier Reef; the story 
of corals and of the greatest of their 
creations, Charles Maurice Yonge. New York, 
Putnam, 1930. 246 p. This and the next two 
