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to The Oceans of Sverdrup, Fleming, and John- 
son and to Submarine Geology by Shepard, but 
in the aim and mode of treatment there is no 
significant overlap. Numerous tables and dia- 
grams present a wealth of quantitative material 
from widely scattered sources, and the reader 
is impressed by the inclusion of published data 
up to 1948. One of the chief merits of the book 
is the degree to which presentation of basic 
data is followed through by analysis of many of 
geology’s much-discussed questions such as the 
one of permanency of ocean basins. The book 
is very effectively illustrated; despite the profuse 
and not always discriminate use of halftones in 
the textbooks of the past half century, Kuenen 
has produced an altogether pleasing text with- 
out them. — C.K.W 
The following publications of the Natural 
Resources Section, General Headquarters, Su- 
preme Commander for the Allied Powers, Tokyo, 
Japan, have been received. Each report includes 
a list of all the reports previously published, 
their distribution, and rules for obtaining them. 
Whiteware Raw Material Resources of Japan. [By 
Donald E, Lee and Hideshiro Hasegav/a.} Report No. 
135. 61 pp., 19 figs., 57 tables. 
The Japanese Village in Transition. [By Arthur E 
Raper, Tamie Tsuchiyama, Herbert Passin, and David 
L. Sills.} Report No. 136. 272 pp., 50 figs., 38 tables, 
numerous photographs. 
