NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Dufour Editions, 1962. $8.95. In press. 
The Open Sea; its natural history; Part 1, 
The world of plankton, Alister Clavering 
Hardy. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957. 
335 p. $6.50. Hardy's books are expert 
and most readable. 
The Open Sea; its natural history: Part 2, 
Fish and fisheries, with chapters on whales, 
turtles, and animals of the sea floor, 
Alister Clavering Hardy. Boston, Houghton 
Mifflin, 1959. 322 p. $7.50. 
The Underwater Guide to Marine Life, 
Carleton Ray and Elgin T. Ciampi. New York, 
A. S. Barnes, 1956. 338 o. $3.75. In- 
tended for the skin diver; ecology, biology, 
descriptions of commoner forms of life. 
The Seas; our knowledge of life in the sea 
and how it is gained, Frederick Stratten 
Russell and C. M. Yonge. 2d ed. New York, 
Warne, 1936. 379 p. $5.00. Marine biology. 
A Biography of the Sea; the story of the 
world ocean, its animal and plant populations, 
and its influence on human history, Richard 
Carrington. New York, Basic Books, 1960, 
285 p. $5.00. Mainly marine biology. 
The Ocean, Francis Downes Ommanney. New 
York, Oxford University Press, 1949. 2h5 p. 
$2.00. Mainly marine biology. 
Under the Sea, Maurice Burton. New York, 
Watts, 1962. 256 p. $4.95. 
of marine animals: easy. 
Natural history 
The Oceanic Life of the Antarctic, Robert 
Cushman Murphy. (Scientific American, vol. 
207, no.3, Sept. 1962, pp. 186-210). 
The Kingdom of the Octopus; the life history 
of the Cephalopoda, Frank Walter Lane. New 
York, Sheridan House, 1960. 300 p. $7.50. 
Paperback, New York, Pyramid Books, 1962. 
287 p. $.75. 
The Case of the Sea-serpent, Rupert Thomas 
Gould. London, Philip Allan, 193). 291 p. 
The author weighs the pros and cons. 
SEAWEED . 
How to Know the Seaweeds; an illustrated 
manual for identifying the more common 
marine algae of both our Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts. . ., Elmer Yale Dawson. 
Dubuque, Iowa, W. C. Brown, 1956. 197 p. 
$2.25. 
Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of 
21% 
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North America, William Randolph Taylor. 2d 
ed. Ann Arbor, 1957. 509 p. (University 
of Michigan studies, Scientific series, vol. 
13). Technical 
Seaweeds at Ebb Tide, Muriel Lewin Guberlet. 
Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1961, 
198 p. $2.95. For identifying Pacific coast 
algae. 
Seaweeds and Their Uses. Valentine Jackson 
Chapman. New York, Pitman, 1952. 287 p. 
All about seaweed, except identification. 
FISHES. 
Ichthyology, Karl Frank Lagler and others. 
New York, Wiley, 1962. 545 p. Im press. 
College text. 
Ecology of Fishes, G. V. Nikolsky. New 
York, Academic Press, 1962. $12.00. In 
press. Technical 
The Physiology of Fishes, Margaret Elizabeth 
Brown. New York, Academic Press, 1957. 2 
vols., each $14.00. Detailed, technical 
account of fish metabolism and behavior. 
A History of the Fishes, John Roxbrough 
Norman. 2d ed. New York, Hillé-ang, 463 p. 
Anatomy, physiology, ecology, geological 
history, and relations to man. $6.00. 
A Study of Fish, Chapman Pincher. 
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 198. 
anatomy and physiology. 
New York, 
343 p. Fish 
The Ways of Fishes, Leonard Peter Schultz 
and Edith M. Stern. New York, Van Nostrand. 
1948. 264 p. $6.00 
The Life Story of the Fish; his morals and 
manners, Brian Curtis. New York, Dover, 
1962. 293 p. $1.50. Fish anatomy, physi- 
ology, and behavior. 
Living Fishes of the World, Eral Stannard 
Herald. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 
1961. 303 p. $12.50. A systematic survey, 
with numerous fine photographs, many in 
color. 
Fishes; a guide to fresh and salt-water 
species, Herbert Spencer Zim and Hurst H. 
Shoemaker. New York, Golden Press, 1959. 
160 p. (Golden nature guide). $1.00. 
Well-illustrated guide to 278 commoner 
species. 
Field Book of Giant Fishes, John Roxbrough 
Norman. New York, Putnam, 1949. 375 p. 
Fine cuide to whales, dolphins, and fishes 
over six feet long; an earlier edition was 
