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Road belong Cargo. A study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District, New Guinea. By Peter Lawrence. Parkville and Manchester, Melbourne University Press and Manchester University Press, 1964. xviii, 291 pp. 50s.* Induced Political Change in the Pacific: A Symposium. Edited by Roland W. Force. Bishop Museum Press, 1965. ix, 103 pp. $US3.50. Search for New Guinea's Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific. By Paul W. Van Der Veur. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1966. xii, 176 pp., seven plates. $A6–30. Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea's Boundaries. Compiled by Paul W. Van Der VEUR. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1966. x, 212 pp. $A3.90. Readings in Australian and Pacific Anthropology. Edited by Ian Hogbin and L. R. Hiatt. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1966. 179 pp. $A2.80. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology. By Jan Vansina (translated by H. M. Wright). London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. xiv, 204 pp., appendix, bibliog., index. 30s. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Edited by Douglas pike. Volume I: 1788–1850, A‐H. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press; London and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1966. xx, 578 pp. $A12.00. Pacific Basin Biogeography. A Symposium. Edited by J. Linsley Gressit. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1963. 561 pp. [$US12.52]. Pacific Port Towns and Cities: a symposium. Edited by Alexander Spoehr. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1963. vii, 89 pp. $US3.50. New England and the South Seas. By Ernest S. Dodge. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1965. xv, 216 pp., illus., endpaper maps, bibliog. $A6.70. The Voice of the Whaleman. With an account of the Nicholson Whaling Collection. By Stuart C. Sherman. Providence, Rhode Island, Providence Public Library, 1965. 219 pp., illus., bibliog. $US 10.00.