Elephants (p. 30) 
A good general source on the nat- 
ural history, ecology, and behavior of 
elephants is I. and O. Douglas-Ham- 
ilton’s popular account of their held 
research in Tanzania, Among the Ele- 
phants (New York: Viking Press, 
1975). A recent article by O. Douglas- 
Hamilton, “Africa’s Elephants: Can 
They Survive?” ( National Geo- 
graphic, November 1980, pp. 568 
603) focuses on how ivory poachers, 
destruction of elephant habitat, and 
political upheaval throughout Africa 
are threatening the elephant’s sur- 
vival, and includes a census of Africa’s 
elephant population by 1 Douglas- 
Hamilton. Publications dealing spe- 
cifically with the Tana region, how- 
ever, are rare. In “Water Availability 
and Its Influence on the Structure 
and Dynamics of a Savannah Large 
Mammal Community” ( East African 
Wildlife Journal , December 1975, pp. 
265 86), D. Western describes an en- 
vironment similar to that of the Tana, 
the Amboseli region of Kenya, where 
highly seasonal water availability has 
an important effect on the structure 
and efficiency of the large mammal 
community. Rangeland Management 
and Ecology in East Africa, edited 
by D.J. Pratt and M D Gwynne (Lon- 
don: Hodder and Stoughton. 1977), 
describes the ecology of grasslands 
and bushlands such as those in the 
interior of the Tana region. S. Holman 
gives an account of a campaign waged 
against traditional elephant hunters in 
the Tsavo Park region, adjacent to 
the Tana, in Massacre of the Ele- 
phants (New York: Holt. Rinehart and 
Winston, 1967). G. Caughley gives a 
critique of different hypotheses on ele- 
phant management in Africa in “The 
Elephant Problem— An Alternative 
Hypothesis” (East African Wildlife 
Journal , December 1976, pp. 265 83). 
Street Urchins (p 40) 
Originally published in 1890, J.A. 
Riis’s forceful indictment of New 
York City’s slum tenements, How the 
Other Half Lives (New York: Hill 
and Wang, 1957), contains a section 
on “street Arabs.” Riis’s highly per- 
sonal and reminiscent narrative is, un- 
fortunately. occasionally marred by a 
paternalistic, ethnocentric tone. Meant 
as a workbook for children in religious 
secondary schools, B. Peachment’s 
The Defiant Ones (Oxford: The Re- 
ligious Education Press Ltd., 1969) 
presents, through drama, the biogra- 
phy of Lather Borelli and other twen- 
tieth-century social workers. Austra- 
lian novelist M. West’s Children of 
the Sun (London: Hcinemann, 1957) 
is a sympathetic, illustrated drama- 
tization of the plight of Naples’ street 
urchins the scugnizzi — and the story 
of Father Borelli’s efforts to aid them. 
A Street Lamp and the Stars (New 
York: Coward McCann, 1963) by M. 
Borelli and A. Thorne, is Father 
Borelli’s autobiography. The screen- 
play of Luis Bunuel’s Los Olvidados 
is translated by N. Fry in The Ex- 
terminating Angel, Nazarin, and Los 
Olividados (New York: Simon and 
Schuster, 1972). 
Meteorites (p. 52) 
Among the most useful books on 
meteorites are such standards as B. 
Mason’s Meteorites (New York: John 
Wiley and Sons, 1962); E.L. Krinov’s 
Principles of Meleoritics (New York: 
Pergamon Press, 1 960); F. Heide’s Me- 
teorites (Chicago: University of Chi- 
cago Press, 1957);and J.A. 'Wood's, Me- 
teorites and the Origin of Planets (New 
York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968). 
A comprehensive introduction to space 
science, Space Geology, by E.A. King 
(New York: John Wiley and Sons, 
1976), includes chapters on meteors, 
tektites. craters, terrestrial impact 
craters, and asteroids, and also con- 
tains a glossary. G.J. McCall’s basic 
exposition Meteorites and Their Ori- 
gins (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 
1973) offers a large, useful bibliog- 
raphy. Designed as a reference work 
on solar system studies. The Moon, 
Meteorites, and Comets, vol. IV of 
The Solar System, edited by B.M. 
Middlehurst and G.P. Kuiper (Chi- 
cago: University of Chicago Press, 
1963), provides a section on meteor- 
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