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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. Ill, July, 1949 
A Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecol- 
ogy. — This is the eighth of a series of publica- 
tions designed to aid in the preparation of a 
treatise on marine ecology and paleoecology. 
Like the previous volumes, it includes notes on 
current activities, bibliographies, papers, and 
abstracts of pertinent papers as well as some of 
the completed units of the proposed treatise. 
Ladd, Harry S., et al. Report of the Committee on 
a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, 
1947-1948. No. 8, December, 1948. Division of 
Geology and Geography, National Research Coun- 
cil, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington 25, D. C. 
117 pp. $1.00. 
The former editor-in-chief of Pacific Science, 
A. Grove Day, has collaborated with Carl Stro- 
ven, University of Hawaii Librarian, in the 
preparation of a delightful anthology of the 
literature of the Pacific. It has just been released 
by the publisher, Macmillan Company, under 
the title, The Spell of the Pacific: An Anthology 
of Its Literature. It runs the gamut from Captain 
Bligh and Charles Darwin to James Norman 
Hall and Charles Nordhoff. All interested in the 
Pacific in any way will find much of interest in 
the 940 pages of this volume. 
Stroven, Carl, and A. Grove Day. The Spell of 
the Pacific: An Anthology of Its Literature, xx -f- 
940 pp. The Macmillan Company, New York, 
1949. $6.50. 
