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Abstract Lichens as Pollution Monitors Studies in Biology, No. 66 D. L. Hawksworth and F. Rose 60 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £2.80 boards, £1.40 paper. Reviewed by John Feltwell The Developmental Biology of Plants and Animals C. F. Graham and P. F. Wareing 393 pp., illustrated. Oxford: Blackwell, 1976. £7.75. Reviewed by K. R. Tyler Science Through Biology J. J. Head 306 pp., illustrated. London: Edward Arnold, 1976. £4.75. Reviewed by Angela Dixon Biology Topic Books M. K. Sands (Ed.) Human Populations D. Hay Parasites A. J. Probert Space Biology C. F. Stoneman About 96 pages each, illustrated. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin (Kestrel), 1976. £2.50 each. Reviewed by Tessa Carrick Carbohydrates Unilever Educational Booklet, Advanced Series no. 10 R. J. Taylor 40 pp., illustrated. London: Unilever Ltd, 1975. Reviewed by Colin Stoneman The Enzyme Molecule W. Ferdinand 289 pp., illustrated. Chichester, Sussex: John Wiley, 1976. £9.50 boards, £4.50 paper. Reviewed by D. A. Kennedy The Language of Smell R. Burton 120 pp., illustrated. London: Routledge and KeganPaul, 1976. £3.95. Reviewed by S. M. Evans Introduction to Animal Parasitology Second edition J. D. Smyth 466 pp., illustrated. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. £15.00 boards, £9.75 paper. Reviewed by Robert Barrass Modern Biology and its Human Implications J. A. V. Butler 120 pp., illustrated. Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. £3.95 boards, £2.45 paper. Reviewed by John Feltwell The Evolution of Reproduction Reproduction in Mammals, Volume 6 C. R. Austin and R. V. Short 169 pp., illustrated. Cambridge: University Press, 1976. £6.50 boards, £2.50 paper. Reviewed by Kevin Tyler The Natural History of Trees H. L. Edlin 269 pp., illustrated. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. £10.00. Reviewed by P. W. Richards Trees and Bushes of Europe O. Polunin and B. Everard 208 pp., illustrated. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. £5.52. Reviewed by Ursula Bowen Programmed Texts for Student Nurses The Eye J. Hull and B. Isaacs. Ill pp. The Ear J. Hull and B. Isaacs. 75 pp. Blood Clotting. J. Hull and B, Isaacs. 67 pp. Bone Tissue J. Hull and B. Isaacs. 73 pp. Composition and Function of Blood J. Hull and B. Isaacs. 116 pp. Heat Action K. Maybury. 65 pp. Thyroid Gland. J. Lowe. 64 pp. Illustrated. Sheffield: NHS Learning Resources Unit, Sheffield City Polytechnic, 1976. £1.00 each. (A range of other texts is also available.) Reviewed by Mary Waring Strasburger's Textbook of Botany Rewritten by D. von Denffer, W. Schumacher, K. Magdefrau and F. Ehrendorfer. Translated from the thirtieth German edition by P. Bell and D. Combe 877 pp., illustrated. London and New York: Longman, 1976. £12.50. Reviewed by S. R. J. Woodell Success in Biology Jean Macqueen (Ed.) 466 pp., illustrated. London: John Murray, 1976. £3.25. Reviewed by D. Ryman Physiology of Nematodes D. L. Lee and H. J. Atkinson 215 pp., illustrated. London: Macmillan, 1976. £5.95. Reviewed by John Feltwell The Living Earth U. Roze 585 pp., illustrated. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976. $14.00. Reviewed by John Kramer Nutrition in Action Association of Teachers of Domestic Science 33 pp. London: Association of Teachers of Domestic Science, 1976. 80p. Reviewed by John Barker Plant Variation and Evolution New edition D. Briggs and S. M. Walters 256 pp., illustrated. London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. £2.95. Reviewed by R. I. Gilbert Physical Biochemistry : Applications to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology D. Freifelder 570 pp., illustrated. San Francisco and Reading: W. H. Freeman, 1976. £12.40 boards, £8.00 paper. Reviewed by John Prebble