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reproduce it in the computer. There is no risk of that with dynamic modelling; the size of memory required grows very quickly with model complexity. Still, the examples in the book can all be done on a PC, and is the best way to learn this exciting technique. Recommended to modellers and quantitative and behavioural ecologists.

R. A. J. TAYLOR

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Robin R. Baker (1989). Human Navigation and Magneto-reception. Pp. 305. University Press, Manchester. Price ?40.00 (hardback).

Any reservations already held about the evidence for man's magnets are hardly likely to be affected by this.

Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith (Eds) (1990). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Vol. 5 1851-1855. Pp. xxxi + 705. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?32.50, $39.50 (hardback).

This undoubted labour of love justifies CUP's long history, not any profit, and this volume introduces the Columbarian Society and Mr Brent, 'a very queer little fish'; the same letter also generated the N.B. 'all Pigeon Fanciers are little men, I begin to think', which has more than once led to idle speculation about extrapolation.

A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin & D. M. Moore (1987). The Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edn. Pp. 688. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?25.00, $59.50 (paperback).

This is the first edition to appear since Warburg, co-editor of the first and second editions, died and he is replaced by Moore; it appears after the Nature Conservancy focused on the declining flora, and after the appearance of the Atlas of the British Flora. Perhaps one day the Flora will incorporate the Atlas?

Mark, S. Boyce (1989). The Jackson Elk Herd: Intensive Wildlife Management in North America. Pp. xii+ 306; illustrated. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?40.00, $75.00 (hardback).

Five of the ten chapters are concerned with management, others with migration, population, the environment, and evaluation; there is a mass of information and there are author and subject indices; the emphasis is on the management and not on easy reading.

Michael Chinery (1989). Butterflies and Day-flying Moths of Britain and Europe. Pp. 315; coloured figures. Collins, London. Price ?12.95.

A direct competitor for Higgins & Riley, with much additional illustrated material, eggs, larvae, pupae, etc. but a more cluttered layout, stiff glossy paper and more varied artwork.

John Terborgh (1989). Where Have All the Birds Gone? Pp. 207. University Press, Princeton. Price $14.95 (paperback).

The birds in question are partly the long-haul migrants lost by deforestation in Central America; but the story harks back to earlier losses, of the wet and wilderness lands, and the capacity for authoritarian mismanagement; as when the 'land bank', ostensibly created to conserve, actually

reproduce it in the computer. There is no risk of that with dynamic modelling; the size of memory required grows very quickly with model complexity. Still, the examples in the book can all be done on a PC, and is the best way to learn this exciting technique. Recommended to modellers and quantitative and behavioural ecologists.

R. A. J. TAYLOR

SHORT NOTICES

Robin R. Baker (1989). Human Navigation and Magneto-reception. Pp. 305. University Press, Manchester. Price ?40.00 (hardback).

Any reservations already held about the evidence for man's magnets are hardly likely to be affected by this.

Frederick Burkhardt & Sydney Smith (Eds) (1990). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Vol. 5 1851-1855. Pp. xxxi + 705. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?32.50, $39.50 (hardback).

This undoubted labour of love justifies CUP's long history, not any profit, and this volume introduces the Columbarian Society and Mr Brent, 'a very queer little fish'; the same letter also generated the N.B. 'all Pigeon Fanciers are little men, I begin to think', which has more than once led to idle speculation about extrapolation.

A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin & D. M. Moore (1987). The Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edn. Pp. 688. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?25.00, $59.50 (paperback).

This is the first edition to appear since Warburg, co-editor of the first and second editions, died and he is replaced by Moore; it appears after the Nature Conservancy focused on the declining flora, and after the appearance of the Atlas of the British Flora. Perhaps one day the Flora will incorporate the Atlas?

Mark, S. Boyce (1989). The Jackson Elk Herd: Intensive Wildlife Management in North America. Pp. xii+ 306; illustrated. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?40.00, $75.00 (hardback).

Five of the ten chapters are concerned with management, others with migration, population, the environment, and evaluation; there is a mass of information and there are author and subject indices; the emphasis is on the management and not on easy reading.

Michael Chinery (1989). Butterflies and Day-flying Moths of Britain and Europe. Pp. 315; coloured figures. Collins, London. Price ?12.95.

A direct competitor for Higgins & Riley, with much additional illustrated material, eggs, larvae, pupae, etc. but a more cluttered layout, stiff glossy paper and more varied artwork.

John Terborgh (1989). Where Have All the Birds Gone? Pp. 207. University Press, Princeton. Price $14.95 (paperback).

The birds in question are partly the long-haul migrants lost by deforestation in Central America; but the story harks back to earlier losses, of the wet and wilderness lands, and the capacity for authoritarian mismanagement; as when the 'land bank', ostensibly created to conserve, actually

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stimulated farmers to plough virgin uncultivatable land to claim the subsidy; 50% of the land in some N. Dakota counties was lost this way.

Adrian Desmond (1990). The Politics of Evolution, Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London. Pp. 503; modestly illustrated, mainly with portraits. The University Press, Chicago. Price $40.25, ?27.95.

A detailed and scholarly text, with footnotes, that 'looks at the social context of public evolution' and other naturalistic theories in the decades before Darwin, embalming the public misconceptions of Malthus and Lamarck to which Darwin wittingly, but unwillingly, added fuel.

Atholl Anderson (1990). Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-hunting in Prehistoric New Zealand. Pp. 238; illustrated. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?45.00, $79.50 (hardback).

A historical view of the frustrating 150-year process of constructing an archaelogical image of the evolution and disapperance of a unique group of birds that became extinct just before they were discovered.

Paul H. Harvey & Linda Partridge (Eds) (1989). Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 6. Pp. 248. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Price ?35.00.

These volumes continue to contain thoughtful pieces by acknowledged authorities, in diverse aspects of biology bordering population ecology and genetics, such that range makes short, yet lucid, comparative accounts difficult: eight contributions range from 'Weismann and modern biology' (Maynard Smith) and 'Caste and change in social insects' (Gordon) to 'Life-history variation in placental mammals' (Harvey, Read & Promislow) and 'Population genetics at the DNA level' (Leigh Brown).

P. A. Jewel & G. M. O. Maloiy (Eds) (1989). The Biology of Large African Mammals in their Environment. Pp. xxi+304. Zoological Society of London, Symposium 61. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ?45.00 (hardback).

Dedicated to R. M. Laws, this volume is from a symposium of great diversity and sometimes considerable depth, with a title that carefully reflects the problems of integration in a vast subject with a tiny research coverage, ranging over surveys, competition between man and elephants, mammal locomotion, trypanosome parasitology, organ function, plant-herbivore interactions and pastoralist water economy; amonst other things.

Richard G. Klein (1989). The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. Pp. xxi +524; illustrated. University of Chicago Press, London. Price ?31.95.

For a volume with 65 pages of references and 15 double column pages of authors, the superfluous main title, and the superficial cover, fail to do it justice or to address it to a valid readership; perhaps they are chasing the 'large prime-time audiences' mentioned in the Preface?

B. Rosemary Grant & Peter R. Grant (1990). Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population. The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos. Pp. xix+ 350; illustrated in colour. University of Chicago Press, London. Price ?51.95 (hardback), ?19.95 (paperback).

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A detailed account of an 11-year study of the ecology, behaviour and genetics of a small population of one of Darwin's finches with an incipient split into two behaviourally and morphologically different species, not evident until carefully measured on forty-four individuals on Isla Genovesa.

David Macdonald (Ed.) (1989). The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Pp. xlviii +894; colour illustrations. Unwin Hyman, London. Price ?40.00 (hardback).

This book is remarkable value; beautiful drawings, incredible photographs, a sane and sympathetic text, and should be compulsory reading in all schools.

John A. Wiens (1989). The Ecology of Bird Communities, 2 Vols. Pp. 539 & 316. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price Vol. 1 ?50.00, Vol. 2 ?35.00 (hardback).

A critical assessment of the current state of a controversial subject. The first volume includes: community patterns and processes, species content and structure, distribution, habitats and resources, compensation and convergence of species. The second volume covers: pattern interpretation, case studies, competition, spatial and temporal change and variation in communi- ties, and the role of theory.

Paul Kerlinger (1989). Flight Strategies of Migrating Hawks. Pp. 375. University Press, London. Price ?15.95 (paperback).

This book attempts to integrate information about the general ecology, physiology, behaviour and evolution of raptors, with emphasis on migratory flight behaviour, written for people who will take time to consider, whilst eschewing technicalities, but it is the behavioural anticipation of its title in which flight strategy's evolutionary role remains to be examined more fully in the future.

Peter J. Grubb & John B. Whittaker (Eds) (1989). Toward a More Exact Ecology. Pp. 468. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. Price ?40.00 (hardback), ?19.50 (paper- back).

For the 75-year jubilee of the British Ecological Society, this volume, which aims to consider the most fruitful current approaches and technologies, contains an Introduction and 18 chapters by 21 authors under the headings of Physiological Processes in Free-Living Organisms, Control of Population Size, Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology, Interrelationships Between Organisms, Ecosystem Ecology and Applied Ecology.

J. M. Cherrett (Ed.) (1989). Ecological Concepts. Pp. 385. Blackwell Scientific Publica- tions, Oxford. Price ?40.00 (hardback), ?19.50 (paperback).

A companion volume to Toward a More Exact Ecology in which J. M. Cherrett analyses the BES members' views on key ecological concepts and 12 other authors consider the contribution of ecology to understanding the natural world in 10 chapters covering ecosystems, foodwebs, niche, diversity, predator-prey interactions, population regulation, competition life strageties, optimiza- tion and levels of organization.

M. G. L. Mills (1990). Kalahari Hyaenas: Competitive Behavioural Ecology of the Two Species. Pp. 304. Unwin Hyman, London. Price ?40. (hardback).

Summary of a 12-year study of the brown and spotted hyaenas in relation to their social structure, their prey, other carnivores and their interactions between the two species and with the semi-arid region of the Kalahari.

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Robert E. Ricklefs (1990). Ecology, 3rd edn. pp. 896. Freeman, Oxford. Price ?21.95 (hardback).

First published in 1973, the new edition changes include earlier treatment of ecosystems, increased discussion of evolutionary ecology and social behaviour, expanded population biology, and wider than usual cover of habitats and organisms.

Anthony W. Leung (1989). Systems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Appli- cations to Biology and Engineering. Pp. xiii+409. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. No price.

A difficult, but useful book for quantitative biologists, not made easier by being typewritten. Really intended for applied mathematicians with biologist clients. The chapters on diffusion dynamics are probably the most relevant to ecologists.

D. L. Hawskworth (Ed.) (1988). Prospects in Systematics. The Systematics Association Special Volume No. 36. Pp. xx+457. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Price ?45.00 (hardback).

Proceedings of a symposium held at the Royal Society in July 1987, this 25-chapter, 30-author volume presents a broad perspective of what's new in systematics and taxonomy in 16 countries. The keynote address by Ernst Mayr reviews recent history and Lynn Margulis has the last word, appealing for new kingdoms to assimilate our new knowledge of eukaryote evolution.

R. C. Campbell (1989). Statistics for Biologists, 3rd edn. Pp. xviii+446. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Price ?30.00 (hardback), ?12.95 (paperback).

The third edition of Campbell's popular text now includes instruction in Rothamsted's GENSTAT statistical program. Examples are also given in SPSS-X and Minitab. Like the earlier editions, the statistical methods are clearly presented with examples all biologists will understand.

John A. Ludwig & James F. Reynolds (1988). Statistical Ecology. A Primer on Methods and Computing. Pp. xviii + 337. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Price ?30-50 (hardback), ?16.75 (paperback).

The floppy disk that comes with this book may give students the misleading impression that statistical ecology is a well-established subject. The uncritical presentation by teachers of facile computer programs is yet another excuse for students not to think critically about their subject.

J. Harker (1989). Mayflies. Pp. 56. Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd., Slough. Price ?12.00 (hardback), ?5.95 (paperback).

An excellent, well-illustrated, introductory text that is a worthy addition to the series of Naturalists' Handbooks. This small book should encourage students, both amateur and professional, to study this fascinating group of insects that provide models for many of the fisherman's flies.

I. C. Campbell (Ed.) (1990). Mayflies and Stoneflies: Life Histories and Biology. Pp. ix + 366. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Price ?99.00, $154.00.

The 44 papers in this volume were originally presented at the joint 5th International Ephemeroptera Conference and 9th International Plecoptera Conference held in Australia in 1987. An excellent review of life-history strategies is followed by a varied assortment of papers. It would have been helpful if the papers had been arranged in clearly identified sections. The book provides a useful sample of currrent work and standards in the field.

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