Abstract
THE third volume of "New Biology" maintains the standard of its predecessors. Addressed primarily to those who have a taste for scientific reading, this miscellany of essays aims at giving an up-to-date account of some aspect of biology which has excited contemporary interest. Contributions like "The Electron Microscope" and "Biological Research" by V. E. Cosslett are likely to be tough going for readers who know little about biology ; but Alec Parker‘s article on "Beasts of Burden" will be as fascinating to the schoolboy as the savant. Articles on "How a Grasshopper becomes a Locust", "Forage Plants", "The Menace of the Roundworm", "Animal Life in Caves" and "Biology of Ship Fouling" indicate that the joint editors are well aware of those subjects which make popular reading.
New Biology, 3
Edited by M. L. Johnson Michael Abercrombie. Pp. 176 + 24 plates. (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1947.) 1s.
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New Biology, 3. Nature 162, 595 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162595c0
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