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FISHERY LEAFLET 541
A Selected List of Books
~ By Paul T. Macy
Ida K. Johnson
January 1963
AQUATIC BIOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS
by Paul T. Macy and Ida K. Johnson
This publication has been prepared to furnish information sources to s tudents and others who are inte res ted in fishery science . aquatic biology, and oceanography. TI,e refe rences range from general wo rks to books with which the reader may identify species of mollusks, fish, invertebrates. or aquat ic plants. Those who wish to read further on specia l topi cs will find additional references included in many of the books on the list.
GENERAL
B O ULENGER, E. G. 1931 . Fishe s. C hapman & Hall Ltd., London,
174 p., i llus.
BROWN, MARGARET E(LIZABETH) (Editor). 1957. The physiology of fishes . 2 vols .
Academic Press I nc., New York . (Vol. 1: Metabolism. 447 p ., illus . ; vol. 2: B ehavior. 526 p., illus.)
CHAPIN, HENR Y, and F . G. WALTON SMITH. 1952 . T~e ocean river. Charl es Scribne r's
Sons, New York . 325 P .. illu s .
CONSTANTIN - WEYER, MAURICE. 1956 . The private life of fishes. Trans
lated by Ray Turrell. Richard B e ll, [London]; Putnam, New York . 150 p., illus.
CUR TIS, BRIAN. 1938. The life story of the fish. D. Apple
ton-Century Co., New York. 260 p ., illus.
DAVIS, CHARLES C(ARROLL). 1955. The marine and fresh-water plankton.
Michigan State University Press, [ East Lansing]. 562 p., illu s.
DEAN, BASHFORD . 189 5 . Fishe s, living and fossil; an outli ne
of thei r forms and probable relationships. Macmillan & Co., New York. 300 p., illus. (Columbia University B iological Se ri es . III.)
D UFRESNE, FRANK. 1946 . Alaska's animals and fishes. Bin
fords and Mort, Portland, Oregon. 29 7 p" illus.
D UGAN , JAMES. 19 56. Man unde r t he s ea . Harper & Bros.,
New York. 332 p., i llus.
GREEN, JAMES. 1961. A biology of crustacea. Quadrangle
Books, Inc. , Chicago. 1 8 0 p., illus.
HERALD, EARL S. 196 1. Living fishes of the world. Doubleda y
& Co . , Inc., Garden City, N. Y. 304 p., illus., color illus.
JENKINS, J. T. 1921. A history of the whale fisheries;
from the Basque fisheri es of the tenth centur y to t h e hunting of the finner whale at the p resent date. H. F. & G. Witherby, London . 336 p., i llus.
JORDAN, DAVID STAR R . 1905. A guide to the study of fishes. In 2
vols. Henry Holt & Co., New York. (Vol. 1: 599 p., illus. ; vol. 2: 624 p., illus.)
1929. Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northeastern United States inclusive of marine species. 13th edition, completely revised and enlarged. World Book Co, Yonkers - on-Hudson. 446 p., illu s.
JORDAN, DAVID S(TARR), and BARTON W. EVERMANN.
1941. American food and game fishes; a popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for r eady identification, life histories and methods of capture . Double day, New York. 574 p., illus .
Note: - -Paul T. Macy , Fishery Research Biologist, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biologica l Labor atory, U.S. Fish andWildlife Service, Seattle, Washington; and Ida K. Johnson, Reference Librarian, U. S. Department of the Inter ior , Washington, D. C.
Revision of Fishery Leaflet 162.
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General--Continued
KEEP, JOSIAH. 1935. West Coast shells: a desc.ription in
familiar terms of the principal marine, fresh-water, and land mollusks of the United States, British Columbia, and Alaska, found w('st of the Sierra. Revised by Joshua L. Baily, Jr. Stanford Univ e rsity Prl'ss, Stanford Univer!llty. 350 p., lllus.
KYLE, HARHY M. 192b. Tht' bIOlogy of flsht~s. MacMillan
Co., New York. 396 p., illus.
LAGOHCE, JOHN OLIVEH (Editor). 195 i'\ . Th e book offlsh,' s. N,·wedltLOn.
Nat 1 0 n a I Geographic Society, W,ishington, D. C. 339 p., dlus., color tllus.
LAMONTE, FRANCESCA. 1950. NorthAmcrtcangamt' fish"". Double
day &. Co .. Garden City. N. Y. L02 p., illus., color Illus.
L .-\ TlL, PIERRE DE. 19S5 . The underwater naturalist. Trans
latl'd from the French by Edw.Hd Flt7.g e rald. Houghton, Miffltn Co., Boston. 275 p •• illus.
LA TIL, PIERR E DE, and JEAN HIVOIH 1-:. 1956 . Man and the und(' rwate r world.
Translated from the Frenc h by Edward Fitzgerald. G. P. Putnam's Sons, r\,'W Yo rk. -100 p., lllus.
LE DANOIS. EDOUARD. 1957. Fishes of the world. With thf' collab
oration of Jaques Mtllot land othe rs J. George G. Harrap & C o., London. 190 p .• illus., color illus.
MIALL, L(OUIS) C. 1934. The natural history of aquatlc In
sects. Macmillan &. Co., London. 395 p., illus.
NORMAN, J(OHN) R(OXBOROUGH). 1958. A history of fishes. 5th edition.
E. Benn, London. 463 p., illus.
NORMAN, J(OHN) R., and F. C. FRASER. 193 8 . Giant fishes, whales and dolphins.
W. W. Norton &. Co., New York. 361 p., illus., color illus.
1949. Field book of giant fishes. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 375 p., illus., color illus.
PINCHER, CHAPMAN. 1948. A study of fish. Duell, Sloan and
Pearce, New York. 343 p., illus.
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PRATT, HENR Y SHERRING. 19413. A manual of the common invertebrate
animals (exclusive of in.ect.). Blaki.ton Co., Philadelphia. (Original printing 1935.) 854 p., illu •.
ROGERS. JULIA ELLEN. 1951 . The shell book; a popular guide to
a knowl .. dge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign. Revised .. dltion. Charles T. BranfordCo., Boston. ')03 p., iUus., color illus.
HOULE, LOUIS. 1933. Fishes; th"ir Journeys and migra
tIOn\;. Translated by Conrad Elphinstonf~. W. W. Norton L Co •• New York. 00 p., Illus.
ROUr\SEFELL, GEORGE A .. and W. HARR Y EV r:~HAR T.
19')3. Fishery sCience; ita methods and appllcatlon\;. John Wiley L Sons, New York. 444 p., Illus .• color illus.
SCHULT/', LEONARD P., and EDITH M. STERr\.
1941'. The ways of fishes. D. Van Nostrand en., I\ .. w York. 264 P .. lllus.
SMITH, GILBER T M. (Editor). 1 Q') 1. Manual of phycology; an introduction
to th .. algae and their biology. Chronica Botanlca Co., Waltham, Mass, 375 p., lllu s.
SMITHSONLAN SCIENTIFIC SERIES. 1944. Volumt> 8. Flshes, amphibians and
r (' p til e s; cold-blooded vertebrates. Part 1. Fishes, by Samuel F. Hildebrand; Pts. II and III. Amphibians and reptiles, by Charles W. Gilmore and Dons M. Cochran. SmithsonianInstitutlon Senes, Inc., New York, 383 p., illus.
1944. Volume 10. Shelled creature s and geological history. Part I - Geological history of North America, by Ray S. Bassler and Charles E. Resser; Part IICrustaceans, by Waldo L. Schmitt; Part III - Mollusks, by Paul Bartsch. Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc., New York, 375 p., illus.
TIFFANY, LEWIS HANFORD. 1958. Algae; the grass of many waters.
2d ed. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, ill., 216 p., illus. (1st ed., 1938, 171 p., illus.).
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General--Continued TRESSLER, DONALD K., and JAMES McW.
LEMON. 1951. Marine products of commerce; their
acquisition, handling, biological aspects and the science and technology of their preparation and preservation. 2d edition revised and enlarged. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 782 p., illus.
VESEY-FITZGERALD, BRIAN, and FRANCESCA LaMONTE (Editors).
1949. Game fish of the world. Harper & Bros., New York, 446 p., illus., color illus.
WEBB, WALTER FREEMAN. 1942. United States mollusca; a descriptive
manual of many of the marine, land and fresh water shells of North Am erica, north of Mexico. Walter Freeman Webb, Rochester, N. Y., 220 p., illus.
1948. Handbook for shell collectors. 8th ed. Walter Freeman Webb, St. Petersburg, Fla., 236 p., illus.
ZIM, HERBER T S., and HURST H. SHOEMAKER.
1956. Fishes; a guide to fresh- and saltwater species. Simon and Schuster, New York, 160 p., color illus. (A Golden Nature Guide.)
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY BROWN, E. S.
1955. Life in fresh water. Oxford University Press, London, 64 p., illus.
CAINE, LOU S. 1949. North American fresh water sport
fish; description & habits, fishing tackle and methods. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, 212 p., illus., color illus.
CARLANDER, KENNETH D(IXON). 1953. Handbook of freshwater fishery
biology, with the first sup pie men t. Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 429 p.
CARPENTER, KATHLEEN E. 1928. Life in inland waters, with especial
reference to animals. Macmillan Co., New York, 267 p., illus.
CLEGG, JOHN. 1959. The freshwater life of the British
Isles; a guide to the plants and invertebrates of ponds, lakes, streams and rivers, witfi an additional chapter on the vertebrates. 2d ed. Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., London and New York, 352 p., illus. (lst ed., 1952, 351 p., illus.)
COKER, ROBER T E(RVIN). 1954. Streams, lakes, ponds. University of
North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C., 327 p., illus.
EDDY, SAMUEL. 1957. How to know the freshwater fishes.
Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 253 p., illus.
EDDY, SAMUEL, and THADDEUS SURBER. 1947. Northern fishes; with special ref
erence to the Upper Mississippi Valley. Revised edition. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 276 p., illus., color illus. (Also rev i sed edition. Charles T. Branford Co., Newton Centre, Mass. 287 p.)
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FASSETT, NORMAN C(AR TER). 1957. A manual of aquatic plants. Revised
edition. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 405 p., illus.
GARNETT, W(ILLIAM) J(EREMlAH). 1953. Freshwater microscopy. Constable
& Co., London, 300 p., illus.
HUBBS, CARL L(EAVITT), and KARL F(RANK) LAGLER.
1958. Fishes of the Great Lakes region. Revised edition. Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Bulletin No. 26, 213 p., illus., color illus.
HUTCHINSON, G. EVELYN. 1957. A treatise on limnology. Volume 1,
Geography, physics and chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1,015 p., illus.
LAGLER, KARL F(RANK). 1956. Freshwater fishery biology. 2d ed.
Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 421 p., illus.
LANGLOIS, THOMAS H. 1954. The western end of Lake Erie and its
ecology. J. W. Edwards, Ann Arbor, 479 p., illus.
MAC AN, T(HOMAS) T(OWNLEY), and E. B. WOR THINGTON.
1951. Life in lakes and rivers. Collins, London, 272 p., illus., color illus.
MELLANBY, HELEN. 1956. Animal life in fresh water; a guide
to fresh-water invertebrates, with a foreword by L. E. S. Eastham. 5th ed. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London. 296 p., illus.
MORGAN, ANN HAVEN. 1930. Field book of ponds and streams; an
introduction to the life of fresh water. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 448 p., illus.
Freshwater Biology--Continued
MOZLEY, ALAN. 1954. An introduction to molluscan ecology;
distribution and population studies of fresh-water molluscs. H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd., London, 71 p., illus.
MUENSCHER, WALTER CONRAD. 1944. Aquatic plants of the United States.
Comstock Publishing Co., Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 374 p., illus.
NEEDHAM, JAMES GEORGE, and J. T. LLOYD.
1937. The life of inland waters; an elementary textbook offresh-water biology for students. 3d ed. Comstock Publishing Co., Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 438 p., illus. (Also Constable, London, 1948.)
NEEDHAM, JAMES G., and PAUL R. NEEDHAM.
1938. A guide to the study of fresh-water biology. 4th edition, revised and enlarged. Comstock Publishing Co., Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 88 p., illus.
NEEDHAM, PAUL R. 1938. Trout streams; conditions that deter
mine their productivity and suggestions for stream and lake management. Comstock Publishing Co., Ithaca, N. Y., 233 p., illus.
PENNAK, ROBER T W(ILLlAM). 1953. Fresh-water invertebrates of the
United States. Ronald Press Co., New York., 769 p., illus.
PLASKITT, F(REDERICK) J(AMES) W(ADE). 1926. Microscopic freshwater life. Chap
man & Hall, Ltd., Londo!1, 278 p., illus.
PRESCOTT, G. W. 1954. How to know the fresh-water algae;
an illustrated key for identifying the
more common fresh-water algae to t" to genus, with hundreds of species named " and pictured and with numerous aids for their study. Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 211 p., illus.
REID, GEORGE K. 1961. Ecology of inland waters and
est u a r i e s. Reinhold Pub lis hi n g Corporation, New York, 375 p., illus.
SCHINDLER, OTTO. 1957. Freshwater fishes. Translated and
edited by p. A. Orkin. Thames and Hudson, London, 243 p., illus.
SCHRENKEISEN, RA Y(MOND). 1938. Field book of fresh-water fishes of
North America north of Mexico. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 312 p., illus.
SCOTT, W(ILLIAM) B(EVERLY). 1954. Freshwater fishes of eastern Canada.
University of Toronto Press, [Toronto], 128 p., illus.
SMITH, GILBER T M(ORGAN). 1950. The fresh-water algae of the United
States. 2d edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 719 p., illus. (
WARD, HENRY BALDWIN, and GEORGE CHANDLER WHIPPLE.
1959. Fresh-water biology. 2d ed., edited by W. T. Edmondson. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1248 p., illus.
WELCH, PAUL S(MITH). 1948. Limnological methods. BlakistonCo.,
Philadelphia, 381 p., illus.
1952. Limnology. 2nd edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 538 p., illus.
MARINE BIOLOGY
ABBOTT, R(OBER T) TUCKER. 1954. American seashells. D. VanNostrand
Company, New York, 541 p., illus.
1955. Introducing seashells; a colorful guide for the beginning collector. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 64 p., illus.
1961. How to know 'the American marine shells. New American Library of World Literature, Inc., New York, 222 p., illus.
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ALLAN, JOYCE. 1956. Cowry shells of world seas. Georgian
House, Melbourne, 170 p., illus., color illus.
ALLEN, GLOVER M. 1942. Extinct and vanishing mammals of
the western hemisphere with the marine species of all the oceans. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Cambridge, Mass., Special Publication No. 11, 620 p., illus. (
Marine Biology--Continued
ARNOLD, AUGUSTA FOOTE. 1901. The sea-beach at ebb-tide; a guide
to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks. The Century Co., New York, 490 p., illus.
BARNHART, PERCY SPENCER. 1936. Marine fishes of Southern California.
University of California Press, Berekeley, 209 p., illus.
BARRETT, JOHN H., and C. M. YONGE. 1958. Collins pocket guide to the sea shore.
William Collins Sons, London, 272 p., illus., color illus.
BERRILL, N(ORMAN) J(OHN). 1951. The living tide. Dodd, Mead & Co.,
New York, 256 p., illus.
BERRILL, N. J., and JACQUELYN BERRILL. 1957. 1001 questions about the seashore.
Dodd, Mead, & Co., New York, 305 p., illus.
BOULENGER,EDWARDG. 1936. A natural history of the seas.
D. Appleton-Century Co., New York, 215 p., illus.
BREDER, CHARLES M., JR. 1948. Field book of marine fishes of the
Atlantic Coast from Labrador to Texas. Revised edition. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 332 p., illus.
BRIGHTWELL, L(EONARD) R(OBER T). 1948. Sea- shore life of Britain. B. T. Bats
ford Ltd., London, 116 p., illus., color illus.
BUR TON, MAURICE. 1954. Margins of the sea. Frederick Muller,
Ltd., London, 210 p., illus.
CARSON, RACHEL L(OUISE). 1941. Under the sea-wind; a naturalist's
picture of ocean life. Simon and Schuster, New York, 314 p.
1955. The edge of the sea. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 276 p., illus.
CHAPMAN, V(ALENTINE) J(ACKSON). 1950. Seaweeds and their uses. Methuen
& Co., London, 287 p., illus.
CLEMENS, W. A., and G. V. WILBY. 1946. Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada.
Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Bulletin No. 58, 368 p., illus. (Also 2d ed., 1961,443 p., illus.)
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CONSTANCE,ARTHUR. 1958. The impenetrable sea. Oldbourne,
London, 279 p.
COSTEAU, J. Y., and FREDERIC DUMAS (Assisted by JAMES DUGAN).
1953. The silent world. Harper & Bros., New York, 266 p., illus., col. illus.
COSTELLO, D. p., and OTHERS. 1957. Methods for obtaining and handling
marine eggs and embryos. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., 247 p.
CROMPTON, JOHN. 1957. The living sea. Doubleday & Co.,
Garden City, N. Y., 233 p., illus.
CROWDER, WILLIAM. 1923. Dwellers of the sea and shore. The
Macmillan Co., New York, 333 p., illus. (The Young People's Shelf of Science, edited by Edwin E. Slosson.)
1931. Between the tides. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 461 p., illus.
DAGLISH, ERIC FITCH. 1954. The seaside nature book. J. M. Dent
& Sons, Ltd., London, 231 p., illus., color illus.
DAKIN, WILLIAM J. (Assisted by ISOBEL BENNETT and ELIZABETH POPE).
1953. Australian seashores: a guid e for the beach-lover, the naturalist, the shore fisherman, and the student. Angus and Robertson, London, 372 p., illus., color plates.
DANIEL, HAWTHORNE, and FRANCIS MINOT. 1954. The inexhaustible sea. Dodd, Mead &
Co., New York, 261 p.
DAWSON, E(LMER) YALE. 1956. How to know the seaweeds; an illus
trated manual for identifying the more corn m 0 n marine algae of both our Atlantic and Pac if i c coasts with numerous aids for their study. W. C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa, 197 p., illus.
EDMONDSON, CHARLES HOWARD. 1949. Seashore treasures. Pacific Books,
Palo Alto, Calif., 144 p., illus.
EKMAN, SVEN. 1953. Zoogeography of the sea. Translated
from the Swedish by Elizabeth Palmer. Sidgewick & Jackson, Ltd., London, 417 p., illus.
Marine Biology--Continued
FLATTELY. F(REDERIC) w .• andC(HARLES) L. WALTON.
1946. The biology of the sea-shore. Sidgwick & Jackson. Ltd •• London. 336 p •• illus. (First published 1922. 2d impression 1946.)
GAUL. ALBRO. 1955. The wonderful world of the seashore.
Appleton-Century-Crofts. New York. 2-!7 p .• illus.
GRAHAM, MICHAEL (Editor). 1956. Sea fisheries; their investigation in
the United Kingdom. Edward Arnold Ltd., London. 487 p •• illus.
GUBER LET. MURIEL LEWIN. 1956. Seaweeds at ebb tide. University of
Washington Press, Seattle, 182 p •• illus.
GUNTHER, KLAUS. and KURT DECKERT. 1956. Creatures of the deep sea. Translated
by E. W. Dickes. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 222 p •• illus.
HALSTEAD, BRUCE W(ALTER). 10 59. Dange rous marine animals. Cornell
Maritime Press. Cambridge. Md., 146 p .• illus.
f-L\HDY, SIR ALISTER CLAVERING. I Q,)/:,. The open sea; its natural history: the
world of plankton. Collins. London. 335 p., illus., c olor illus.
1959. The open sea; its natural history. Part II - Fish and fisheries; with chapters on whal e s, turtles and animals of the sea floor. Collins, London. 322 p .• illus •• color illus.
1 I:\!< \ ' E-~ Y, F:. N F. W TO N. I "c,~. BIOluminescence. Academic Press.
Inc ., NI.'w York, (,-!9 p., illus.
HAl'SI\\.'\N. LEO N A. 1'1.1 0 • Beginne r's guide to seashore life.
C. p. Putnamls Sons, Ne w York. 128p •• Illus.
III·:H I, leK.. FRANCIS HOBAR T. I "Ot , . The American lobster: a study of its
k\ 1)1 t sand deve lopme nt. Bulletin of the U.S. Fish Commission. vol. 15.p.I-252. dlus.
III-:HUBEL, lI.1AHCEL A. 191~. Sea flsheries; their treasures and
tode rs. Translated by Bernard Miall. T. Fisher Unwin, London. 366 p.
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HYLANDER.CLARENCEJ, (' 1950. Sea and shore. Macmillan Co •• New
York. 242 p., illus.
JOHNSON, MYR TLE ELIZABETH. and HARR Y J AMES SNOOK.
1935. Seashore animals of the Pacific coast. Macmillan Co •• New York. 659 p., illus •• color illus.
JOHNSTONE. JAMES. 1908. Conditions of life in the sea; a short
account of quantitative marine biological research. University Press. Cambridge. 332 P .. illus.
JOHNSTONE, KATHLEEN YERGER. 1957. Sea treasure; a guide to shell col
lecting. Houghton Mifflin Co •• Boston. 242 p., illus., color illus.
KEENE, A. MYRA. 1958. Sea shells of tropical west America;
marine mollusks from Lower California to Colombia. Stanford University Press, Stanford. 624 p •• illus.
LAMONTE. FRANCESCA. 1952. Marine game fishes of the world.
Doubleday & Co •• Garden City. N. Y., 190 p •• illus •• color illus.
LEDANO~. ~DOUARD. ( 1957. Marine life of coastal waters (western
Europe). Translated and adapted by N. A. Holme. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd .• London. 191 p •• illus., color illus.
MACGINITIE. G. E •• and NETTIE MACGINITIE 1949. Natural history of marine animals:
1 st edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co •• Inc., New York, 473 p., illus.
MARSHALL. N. B. 1954. Aspects of deep sea biology. Hutchin
son l s Scientific and Technical Publications, London, 380 p., illus., color illus.
MA YER. ALFRED GOLDSBOROUGH. 1906. Sea- shore life; the invertebrates of
the New York coast and the adjacent coast region. A. S. Barnes & Co .. New York. 181 P .. illus.
MINER, ROY WALDO. 1950. Field book of seashore life.
G. p. Putnamls Sons. New York, 888p •• illus., color illus.
MOORE, H. F. 1910. The commerical sponges and the
sponge fisheries. Bulletin of the (U.S.) Bureau of Fisheries. vol. 28. Part I, p.399-511.i1lus. (
Marine Biology--Continued
MOORE, HlLAR Y B. 1958. Marine ecology. John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., New York, 493 p., illus.
MORRIS, PERC Y A. 1951. A field guide to the shells of our
Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Revised and enlarged edition. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 236 p., illus., color illus.
1952. A field guide to shells of the Pacific coast and Hawaii. Houghton MifflinCo., Boston, 220 p., illus., color illus.
NICHOLS, JOHN T., and PAUL BAR TSCH. 1945. Fishes and shells ofthe Pacific world.
Macmillan Co., New York, 201 p., illus.
NICOL, J. A. COLIN. 1960. The biology of marine animals. Inter
science Publishers, Inc., New York; Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. Ltd., London, 707 p., illus.
PERLMUTTER,ALFRED. 1961. Guide to marine fishes. New York
University Press, New York, 431 p., illus.
PERRY, LOUISE M., and J EANN E S. SCHWENGEL.
1955. Marine shells of the western coastof Florida. PaleontologicalResearch Institution, Ithaca, N. Y., 318 p., illus.
RAY, CARLETON, and ELGIN CIAMPI. 1956. The underwater guide to marine life.
A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, 338 p., illus., color illus.
RICHARDS, HORACE G. 1938. Animals of the seashore. Bruce
Humphries, Inc., Boston, 273 p., illus.
RICKETTS, EDWARD F., and JACK CALVIN. 1948. Between Pacific tides. Revised edi
tion. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 365 p., illus., color illus.
ROUGHLEY, T(HEODORE) C(LEVELAND). 1952. Wonders of the Great Barrier reef.
Angus & Robertson Ltd., London, 279 p., illus., color illus. (First published in 1936.)
SCHEFFER, VICTOR B. 1958. Seals, sea lions and walruses; a re
view of the Pinnipedia. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 179 p., illus.
SMITH, B. WEBSTER. 1940. The world under the sea; a concise
account of the marine world. D. Appleton-Century Co., New York, 230 p., illus.
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SMITH, GILBER T M. 1944. Marine algae of the Monterey Penin
sula, California. Stanford University Press, Stanford University, 622 p., illus.
SMITH, J(AMES) L. B. 1956. Old fourlegs: the story of the
Coelocanth. Longmans Green and Co., London, 260 p., illus.
SMITH, MAXW ELL. 1940. World-wide sea shells - - - together
with two articles by Joshua L. Baily. (T r 0 pic a I Photographic Laboratory, Lantana, Florida.) Edwards Bros., Inc., Ann Arbor, 139 p., illus.
STEP, EDWARD. 1954. Shell life: an introduction to the
British Mollusca. 2nd edition, revised by A. Laurence Wells. Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., London, 443 p., illus., color illus.
STEPHENSON, E. M. 1951. The naturalist on the seashore. Adam
and Charles Black Ltd., London, 96 p., illus., color illus. (Black's Young Naturalist's Series.)
STREET, PHILIP. 1952. Between the
London Press illus.
tides. University of Ltd., London, 175 p.,
TA YLOR, WILLIAM RANDOLPH. 1957. Marine algae of the northeastern
coast of North America. 2d revised edition. University of Michigan Studies, Scientific Series, vol. 12, 509 p., illus.
TINKER, SPENCER WILKIE. 1952. Pacific sea shells; a handbook of
common marine mollusks of Hawaii and the South Seas. Mercantile Printing Co., Honolulu, 232+ [7] p., illus.
VERRILL, A. HYATT. 1936. Strange sea shells and their stories.
L. C. Page & Co., Boston, 206 P .. illus.
1950. Shell collector's handbook. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 228 p .. illus.
1955. Strange creatures of the sea. Grossett & Dunlap, New York, 233 p., illus.
VEVERS, H. G. 1954. The British seashore. Routledge 8<
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Marine Biology--Continued
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