Use of Mechanical Power for Rotary Weeding

Suppressive soils and plant disease.

Edited by R. W. Schneider. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1982. ISBN 0 89054 048 9. Pp. 88. Price APS members US $8.00, nonmembers US $9.00.

Annual review of phytopathology.

Volume 20. Edited by R. G. Grogan, G. A. Zentmyer and E. B. Cowling.

Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1982. ISBN 8243 1320 8. Price US$ 22.00 (USA), US$ 25.00 (elsewhere).

The locust and grasshopper agricultural manual.

Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 1982. ISBN 0 85135 120 4. Pp.690. Price £50.00.

CRC handbook of pest management in agriculture.

Edited by D. Pimental. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 1982. Three volumes. ISBN 0 8493 3841 7 (Vol. I). Vol. I. Pp. 597, price US$ 86.00 (US$ 99.00 outside US). Vol. II. Pp. 501, price US$ 76.00 (US$ 87.00 outside US). Vol. III. Pp. 656, price US$ 86.00 (US$ 99.00 outside US).

Weed science: principles and practices.

G. C. Klingman and F. M. Ashton with editorial assistance of L. J. Noordhoff. Second Edition. John Wiley — Interscience, New York, 1982. ISBN 0 471 08487 5. Pp. 449. Price £19.00.

Biology and ecology of weeds.

Edited by W. Holzer and M. Numata. Geobotany Series 2. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, 1982. ISBN 90 6193 682 9. Pp.461. Price US$ 99.50.

Plantas daninhas do Brasil.

H. Lorenzi. Published by the author, Nova Odessa, S. P., Brasil, 1982. Pp. 425.

Integrated weed management systems technology for crop production and protection.

Proceedings of a Symposium of the Weed Science Society of America, Las Vegas, February 1981. Supplement to Weed Science volume 30, 1982. Pp. 54.

Weeds and weed control in Asia.

Food and Fertiliser Technology Centre, Taipei, Taiwan (FFTC Book Series No. 20), 1981. Pp. 259.

Building a sustainable society.

L. R. Brown. W. W. Norton &; Co., New York and London, 1982. ISBN 0 393 01482 7. Pp. 433. Price US $14.95     

Weed Research in the Central Laboratory of Plant Protection in Cuba

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WEED CONTROL. R. J. Stephens. Science in Horticulture Series. Macmillan, London, 1982. ISBN 0 333 21294 0. Pp.215. Price (paperback) £8.95.

OIL PALM DISEASES AND DISORDERS. P. D. Turner. Oxford University Press, Selangor, Malaysia, 1981. ISBN 0 19 580468 6. Pp. 280.

MAJOR WEEDS OF RICE IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. K. Moody. International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, 1981. Pp. 79.

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WEEDS ‐ A WORLD CATALOGUE OF AGENTS AND THEIR TARGET WEEDS. Edited by M. H. Julien. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, UK, 1982. ISBN 0 85198 494 0. Pp 108. Price £8.

COMPENDIUM OF SOYBEAN DISEASES. Second Edition. Edited by J. B. Sinclair. Amercian Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1982. Pp. 104. Price US $12.00.

FIELD WORKER EXPOSURE DURING PESTICIDE APPLICATION. Edited by W. F. Tordoir and E. A. H. van Heemstra. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1980. ISBN 0 444 41879 2. Pp. 208. Price US $45.00.

EDUCATION AND SAFE HANDLING IN PESTICIDE APPLICATION. Edited by E. A. H. van Heemstra and W. F. Tordoir. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1982. ISBN 0 444 42041 X. Pp. 302. Price US $69.75.

LES PRINCIPAUX ENNEMIS DES CULTURES MARAICHERES AU SENEGAL E. F. Collingwood, L. Bourdouxhe and M. Defrancq. Centre pour le Developpement de ('Horticulture, Dakar, 1982.     

Critical periods for weed competition

Abstract

BIOCHEMICAL INSECT CONTROL: ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL SELECTION. M. Sayeed Quraishi. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1977. ISBN 0 471 70275 7. Pp. viii + 280. Price £14.25, US $24.50.

DISEASES, PESTS AND WEEDS IN TROPICAL CROPS. Edited by Jürgen Kranz, Heinz Schmutter and Werner Koch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin and Hamburg, 1977. ISBN 3 489 67626 8. Pp. xv + 666, Colour plates 64. Price Dm. 68.

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY. A GUIDE TO INFORMATION SOURCES. Edited by R. L. Rudd. Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1977. ISBN 0 8103 13421. Pp. xii + 266. Price US $18.00

THE SAFETY OF THE HERBICIDES 2,4-D AND 2,4.5-T. D. J. Turner. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1977. ISBN 0 11 710149 4. Pp. 56. Price £1.20

PESTICIDE CHEMISTRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Edited by J. R. Plimmer. ACS Symposium Series No. 37, American Chemical Society, Washington, USA, 1977. ISBN 0 8412 0364 4. Pp. 310. Price US $20.00

PESTICIDES IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS. Edited by M. A. Q. Khan. Environmental Research Series, Volume 10. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1977. ISBN 0306 36310 0. Pp. xiii + 257. Price US $35.40, £18.75

THE FUTURE FOR INSECTICIDES. Edited by Robert L. Metcalf and John J. McKelvey Jr. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1976. ISBN 0 471 59860 7. Pp. xiv + 524. Price £14.70, US $30.20

SYNTHETIC PYRETHROIDS. Edited by Michael Elliott. ACS Symposium Series No. 42, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1977. ISBN 0 84120368 7. Pp. xi + 229. Price £15.75

WEED CONTROL HANDBOOK. Volume 1, Principles, Edited by J. D. Fryer and R. J. Makepeace. Sixth Edition. Blackwell, London, 1977. ISBN 0632 00209 3. Pp. xvii + 510. Price £13.50

A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEED RESEARCH AND CONTROL: PUBLICATIONS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND MEXICO, 1942–1976. Second Edition. International Plant Protection Center, Oregon, USA, 1978. Pp. xiii + 241. Price US $5.00

MAJOR INSECT AND MITE PESTS OF AUSTRALIAN CROPS. E. Hassan, Ento Press, Queensland, Australia. ISBN 0 959 6962 88. Pp. 236.

THE BIOLOGY OF TRIBOLIUM, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON GENETIC ASPECTS, Volume 3. A. Sokoloff. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. ISBN 0 19 857512 2. Pp. xix + 612. Price £25.00

TOOLS FOR AGRICULTURE. A buyer's guide to low-cost agricultural implements. Compiled by John Boyd. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, 1976. ISBN 0 903031 22 1. Pp. 173. Price £4.00

SEED PATHOLOGY. (Volumes I and II). Paul Neergaard. MacMillan Press Ltd., London, 1977. ISBN 0 333 19273 7. Pp. 1187. Price £50.00

CONTROL OF TROPICAL AQUATIC WEEDS. A. H. Pieterse. Bulletin 300, Department of Agricultural Research of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1977. Pp. 20.     

Recommendations for the Use of Herbicides

Management of Pests and pesticides: Farmers’ Perceptions and Practices. Editors Joyce Tait and Banpot Napompeth, Boulder, Col.: Westview Press 1987. ISBN 0–8133–7174–0, £33 paperback.

Termites in Buildings. Their Biology and Control. R. Edwards and A. Mill. Rentokil Library, 1987, ISBN 0906 5640 69 £24–50.

Pesticide Science and Biotechnology. Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry. Ottawa, Canada, 10–15 August 1986. Edited by R. Greenhalgh and T. R. Roberts. IUPAC/Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987 (602 pp + xiii).

Breeding for Resistance to Diseases and Insect Pests. By D. P. Singh. 222 pp + xi. ISBN 0 387 16970 9. Springer Verlag. 1986. Price $7900.

Pest Control Safe for Bees: A Manual and Directory for the Tropics and Subtropics. By M. Adey, P. Walker and P. T. Walker, 1986. International Bee Research Association, London. Price £12–20.

The Cocoa Pod Borer: An Introduction and Abstracts. Compiled by Lim Guan Soon et al. Malaysian Plant Protection Society, Box 12351 Kuala Lumpur. 1987. 103 pp. ISBN 967–9942–07–4.

Pentachlorophenol. Environmental Health Criteria, No. 71, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1987. 236 pages, ISBN 92 4 154271 3. Price: Sw.fr. 18—/US$1080.

Ecology and Control of Perennial Weeds in Latin America. FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper No. 4. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. 1986, 339 pp. ISBN 92–5–102446–4.

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Leaf hoppers and Planthoppers of Economic Importance. Edited by M. R. Wilson and L. R. Nault. CAB International Institute of Entomology. 1987. 368 pp. ISBN 0–900301–03–1.

Breeding for Durable Resistance in Perennial Crops. FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper No. 70 (1986). 130 pp.

Ascochyta Blight Resistance in Chickpea. Proceedings of a training course, PARC/ICARDA, 3–10 March, 1984, Islamabad, Pakistan. ICARDA, 1986, 123 pp.     

Sir Frederick Charles Bawden

Abstract

A FIELD GUIDE TO WEEDS IN AUSTRALIA. C. Lamp and F. Collett. Inkata Press, Melbourne, 1976. ISBN 0 909605 02 5. Pp. 376. Price Aust. $14.95.

WILD OATS IN WORLD AGRICULTURE. Edited by D. Price-Jones. Agricultural Research Council, London, 1976. ISBN 0 7084 00 18 3. Pp. 295. Price £3.40, including postage and packing (UK).

HANDBOOK OF GENETICS. Volume 3 - Invertebrates of Genetic Interest. Edited by Robert C. King. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1975. ISBN 0 306 37613 X. Pp. xiv + 874. Price $59.40.

FIELD MANUAL FOR WEED CONTROL RESEARCH. L. C. Burril, J. Cardenas and E. Locatelli. International Plant Protection Center, Corvallis, USA, 1976. US Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 76–14145. Pp. 59. Price US $5.00.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOTANY OF TROPICAL CROPS. Second edition. L. S. Cobley revised by W. M. Steele. Longman, London, 1976. ISBN 0 582 44153 6. Pp. xvi + 371. Price £6.00 net (UK price only).

PROVISIONAL ATLAS OF THE NEMATODES OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Volume 1. Parts 1–3. General Editors J. Heath, D. J. F. Brown and B. Boag. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood, 1977. ISBN 0 904282 04 X. Price £2.00.

WEED CONTROL BY CHEMICALS. D. J. Chandra Singh and K. Narayana Rao. A.P. Agricultural University, Bapatla, India. Pp. 148. Price Rs 12.00.

PEST MANAGEMENT WITH INSECT SEX ATTRACTANTS. Edited by M. Beroza. ACS Symposium Series 23. American Chemical Society, Washington D.C., 1976. ISBN 0 8412 0308 3. Pp. 192. Price US $17.75.

RESISTANCE OF VECTORS AND RESERVOIRS OF DISEASE TO PESTICIDES. Twenty-second Report of the WHO Expert Committee on Insecticides. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, No. 585, 1976. ISBN 92 4 120585 7. Pp. 88. Price Sw.fr. 8.-. US $3.20. French, Russian and Spanish editions in preparation.

A WORLD WIDE CATEGORIZED PARTIAL LISTING FOR MANUFACTURERS OF PESTICIDE APPLICATION EQUIPMENT. Edited by A. E. Deutsch, International Plant Protection Center, Oregon, 1976. Pp. 56, Price US $3.00.

EVOLUTION OF CROP PLANTS. Edited by N. W. Simmonds. Longman. London and New York, 1976. ISBN 0 582 46678 4. Pp. xii + 389. Price £14.00.

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ONCHOCERCIASIS. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, No. 597, 1976. ISBN 92 4 120597 0. Pp. 94. Price: Sw.fr. 7.-, US $2.80. French, Russian and Spanish editions in preparation.

PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD. Report of the 1975 Joint Meeting of the FAO Working Party of Experts on Pesticide Residues and the WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, No. 592, 1976. ISBN 92 4 120592 X. Pp. 45. Price: Sw. fr. 6.-, US $2.40. Also published in French. Russian and Spanish editions in preparation.

MARINE HELMINTHS AND HUMAN HEALTH. H. Harford Williams and Arlene Jones. CIH Miscellaneous Publication No. 3. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, 1976. ISBN 0 85198 382 0. Pp. 47. Price £3.00 in UK, £3.60 elsewhere.     

Asociacion Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Las Ciencias Aplicadas a Las Malezas (ALAM)

Abstract

ENTOMOGENOUS NEMATODES, A MANUAL AND HOST LIST OF INSECT-NEMATODE ASSOCIATIONS. G. O. Poinar, Jr. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 175. ISBN 90 04 04240 7. Pp. 317. Price Dutch Guilders 96.

PESTICIDE INDEX. Fifth edition. Edited by W. J. Wiswesser. Entomological Society of America, 1976. Pp. 328. Price US $12.00.

ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS OF PESTICIDES. Edited by Rizwanul Haque and V. H. Freed. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1975. ISBN 0 306 36306 2. Pp. viii + 387. Price £15.65.

TOXICOLOGY OF INSECTICIDES. Fumio Matsumura. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1975. ISBN 0 306 30787 1. Pp. xvii + 503. Price £14.60.

CROP PRODUCTION PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES. S. R. Chapman and L. P. Carter. W. H. Freeman &; Co., San Francisco, USA and Reading, England, 1976. ISBN 0–7167–0581–8. Pp. 566. Price £9.50.

DISEASES OF TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUITS AND NUTS. A. A. Cook. Hafner Press, New York, 1975. Pp. 317. Price US $20.00.

MORE DEMATIACEOUS HYPHOMYCETES. M. B. Ellis. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, 1976. ISBN 0 85 198 365 0. Pp. 507. Price £15.00 in UK, £18.00 overseas.

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLOUR ILLUSTRATED MINERAL DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS IN TROPICAL CROPS. Technical Communication No. 34 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops. J. B. D. Robinson. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, UK, 1974. ISBN 0 85198 304 9. Pp. 84. Price £5.00 UK, £6.00 overseas. First Supplement, 1976. Price £1.50 UK, £1.80 overseas.

NUTRITION IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. WHO Monograph Series, No. 62. G. H. Beaton and J. M. Bengoa. WHO, Geneva, 1976. ISBN 92 4 140062 5. Pp. 590. Price Sw. fr. 83.

ECONOMICALLY APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. M. Carr. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, 1976. ISBN 0 903031 19 1. Pp. 101. Price: £2.00 net; £2.25 UK post paid; £3.15 airmail; £2.30 surface mail.

CHINESE CHAIN AND WASHER PUMPS. S. Watt. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, 1976. ISBN 0 90301 26 4. Pp. 49. Price: £0.95 net; £1.15 UK post paid; £1.65 airmail; £1.25 surface mail.

A MANUAL ON BUILDING MAINTENANCE – Volume 1: Management and Volume 2: Methods. D. Miles. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, 1976. ISBN 0 903031 28 0. Vol. 1 pp. 78, Vol. 2. pp. 64. Price for each volume: £1.25 net; £1.50 UK post paid; £2.20 airmail; £1.55 surface mail.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT. THE NAMULONGE CONTRIBUTION. Edited by M. H. Arnold. Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 353. ISBN 0 521 21051 8. Price £13.00.

SURVEY OF THE WORLD'S APHIDS. V. F. Eastop and D. Hille Ris Lambers. Dr W. Junk B.V., The Hague, 1976. ISBN 90 6193 561 X. Pp. 573. Price Dutch Guilders 160.

CONTROLLED-DROPLET APPLICATION AND U.L.V. SPRAYING. Anon. BP Ltd., London, 1976. Pp. 28. Price: free. Available from: Agricultural Branch, International Marketing Department, BP Trading Ltd, Britannic House, Moor Lane, London EC2Y 9BU, UK.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY, Volume 14, 1976. Edited by K. F. Baker, G. A. Zentmyer and E. B. Cowling. Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, California, USA. ISBN 0 8243 1314 3. Pp. 511. Price US $17.00 (USA), US £17.50 (elsewhere).

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT. Edited by J. Lawrence Apple and Ray F. Smith. Plenum Press, New York. 1976. ISBN 0 306 30929 7. Pp. 200. Price US $48.50.

INSECTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Edited by C. F. Wilkinson. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1976. ISBN 0 306 30872 X. Pp. 768. US $59.40 (UK £31.19).     

Some aspects of utilization of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)

Abstract

DISPOSAL AND DECONTAMINATION OF PESTICIDES. Edited by Maurice V. Kennedy. ACS Symposium Series No. 73. American Chemical Society, Washington D.C., 1978. ISBN 0 8412 0443 0. Pp. 158. Price US $20.00.

MICRO-ORGANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH RUBBER (HEVEA BRASILIENSIS MUELL. ARG.). K. H. Chee. Agricultural Series Report No. 4, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur, 1976. Pp. 78. Price M$15.00

PEST CONTROL STRATEGIES. Edited by E. H. Smith and D. Pimentel. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco and London, 1978. ISBN 0 12 650450 4. Pp. 334. Price £10.40, US $16.00.

SORGHUM AND PEARL MILLET DISEASE IDENTIFICATION HANDBOOK. R. J. Williams, R. A. Frederiksen and J. C. Girard. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India, 1978. Information Bulletin No. 2. Pp. 88. Free.

PESTICIDE RESIDUES. A REVIEW OF INDIAN WORK. V. Agnihothrudu and M. S. Mithyantha. Rallis India Limited, Bangalore, 1978. Pp. 173. Price; India Rs30; elsewhere £4.00 + postage.

TWELVE LITTLE HOUSEMATES. Karl von Frisch. Pergammon Press, 1979. ISBN 0 08 021958 6. pp. 155. Price £5.00, US $12.00.

PLANT BREEDING FOR PEST AND DISEASE RESISTANCE. G. E. Russell. Butterworth &; Co Ltd, Sevenoaks, 1978. ISBN 0 408 106131. pp. 485. Price £25.00.     

Recent WHO Mosquito Control Research—a Summary

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APPLYING PESTICIDES: MANAGEMENT, APPLICATION, SAFETY. American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials, Athens, Georgia, USA, 1976. Pp. 96. US $4.95.

METHODS OF APPLYING HERBICIDES FOR AQUATIC WEED CONTROL. D. N. Riemer and J. A. Meade. Cooperative extension services of the northeastern states, New Brunswick, USA. Pp. 17

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY, VOLUME 23. Edited by T. E. Mittler, C. N. Smith and V. H. Resh. Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, California. USA, 1978. ISSN 0066 4170. ISBN 0 8234 01234. Pp. 523 Price US $17.00 in USA, US $17.50 elsewhere.

PLANT DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY. Edited by P. R. Scott and A. Bainbridge. Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd, 1978. ISBN 0 632 00372 3. Pp. 329. Price £9.00.

PENTACHLOROPHENOL. Edited by K. Ranga Rao. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1978. ISBN 0 306 36312 7. Pp. xiv + 402. Price US $45.00.

THE TROPICAL TUBER CROPS: YAMS, CASSAVA, SWEET POTATO AND COCOYAMS. I. C. Onwueme. John Wiley, Chichester and New York, 1978. ISBN 0 471 99608 (cloth); 0 471 99607 (paper). Pp. xiv + 234. Price £11.00 cloth; £5.50 paperback.

DISEASES, PESTS AND WEEDS IN TROPICAL CROPS. Edited by J. Kranz, H. Schmutterer and W. Koch.     

Weeds

Abstract

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL APICULTURE. Eva Crane. International Bee Research Association, London 1978. Price bound volume £30, individual parts; containing up to 150 entries per part £3.00; containing 150 entries or more £5.00.

ROOT-KNOT NEMATODES (MELOIDOGYNE SPECIES). SYSTEMATICS BIOLOGY AND CONTROL. Edited by F. Lamberti and C. E. Taylor. Academic Press, London, New York and San Francisco, 1979. ISBN 0 12 434850 5. Pp. 477. Price £15.00, US $31.00.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY Vol. 16. Edited by R. G. Grogan, G. A. Zentymer and E. B. Cowling. Annual Reviews Inc., California, 1978. ISBN 0 82431316 X. Pp. 528.

LE DESHERBAGE DES RIZIERES EN AFRIQUE DES L'OUEST ET LEURS PRINCIPALES ADVENTICES. Division de Defense des Cultures, IRAT and West African Rice Development Association, Monrovia, Liberia, 1978. Pp. 93. Price not known.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERPRETATION OF QUANTAL RESPONSES IN BIOLOGY. P. S. Hewlett and R. L. Plackett, Edward Arnold, London, 1979. ISBN 07131 2742 2. Pp. 82. Price £3.95.

PATHOGENICITY OF TRYPANOSOMES. Proceedings of a workshop held at Nairobi, Kenya, 20–23 November 1978. Edited by G. Losos and A. Chouinard. IDRC, Ottawa, 1979. ISBN 0 88936 214 9. Pp. 216. Price Can. $11.00.

TPI CROP AND PRODUCT DIGEST NO. 3: FOOD LEGUMES Daisy E. Kay. Tropical Products Institute, London, 1979. ISBN 0 85954 085 5. Pp. xvi + 435. Price £6.50 plus £1 postage and packing.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SOIL SCIENCE R. E. White, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1979. ISBN 0 632 00052 X. Pp. 198. Price £8.50.

DISEASES OF FOREST TREES WIDELY PLANTED AS EXOTICS IN THE TROPICS AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. PART II: THE GENUS PINUS Compiled by I. A. S. Gibson, CAB/CFI, 1979. Pp. 135. Price £7.00.

PLANT PRODUCTS OF TROPICAL AFRICA. Margaret L. Vickery and Brian Vickery. Macmillan Press Ltd., London and Basingstoke, 1979. ISBN 0 333 248023. Pp. 116. Price £4.95 paperback, £10.95 hard back

PESTICIDE MICROBIOLOGY: MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PESTICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by I. R. Hill and S. J. L. Wright. Academic Press London, 1978. ISBN 012 348650 5. Pp. 844. Price £38.00.

LE DESHERBAGE DES CULTURES SOUS LES TROPIQUES. J. Deuse and E. M. Lavabre. G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, 1979. ISBN 2 7068 0756 3. Pp. 312. Price 150 Fr.

THE USE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT F. L. McEwen and G. R. Stephenson. John Wiley and Sons, N. Y. 1979. ISBN 0 471 03903 9. Pp. xiv + 538. Price £16.75.

SEED TREATMENT CIPAC Monograph No. 2. Edited by K. A. Jeffs. Collaborative International Pesticides Analytical Council, 1978. Pp. 101.     

Lethal Mechanisms of Granulated Insecticides

A GROWING PROBLEM: PESTICIDES AND THE THIRD WORLD POOR. D. Bull. Oxfam, Oxford, 1981. ISBN 0 85598 064 8. Pp. 192. Price £4.95.

FUNDAMENTALS OF PESTICIDES ‐ A SELF‐INSTRUCTION GUIDE. G. W. Ware. Thomson Publications, Fresno, California, 1982. ISBN 0 913702 16 1. Pp. 257. Price US S9.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. R. van den Bosch, P. S. Messenger and A. P. Gutierrez. Plenum Press, New York, 1982. ISBN 0 306 40706 X. Pp. 247.

PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR POTENTIAL AND PRACTICE. Edited by T. H. Thomas. BCPC Publications, Croydon, 1982. ISBN 0 901436 69 0. Pp.271. Price £15.00.

TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION. Fourth edition. G. Wrigley. Longman, London and New York, 1982. ISBN 0 582 46037 9. Pp.480. Price£24.00.

PATHOGENS, VECTORS AND PLANT DISEASES. APPROACHES TO CONTROL. Edited by K. F. Harris and K. Maramorosch. Academic Press, London, 1982. ISBN 0 12 326440 5. Pp. 310. Price £31.80, US $48.00.

RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF INSECTICIDES. Edited by D. S. Gupta. Indian Council for Agricultural Research and Haryana Agricultural University. Hissar, 1980. Pp. 374.

PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD: 1980 EVALUATIONS. FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper, 26 Sup. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1981. ISBN 92 5 101148 6. Pp. 460.

PESTICIDE RESISTANCE AND WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION. Edited by G. Conway. Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College, London, 1982. ISBN 0 950 77441 3. Pp. 144. Price £3.60.

WEED CONTROL HANDBOOK: PRINCIPLES. Seventh Edition. Edited by H. A. Roberts. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1982. ISBN 0 632 01018 5. Pp. 533. Price about £20.00.

BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF HERBICIDE ACTIVITY. C. Fedtke. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, 1982. ISBN 0 387 11231 6. Pp. 202.     

International Congress of Plant Pathology

Abstract

Extension Science: Information Systems in Agricultural Development. N. Röling. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. £35 h/back 0–521–34437–9, £11.95 p/back 0–521–34887–0.

Weed Science in the Tropics: Principles and Practices. By I. Okezie Akobundu. Wiley, 1987, pp.522. ISBN 0–471–91544–0. Price ?

Trichogramma and Other Egg Parasites. Edited by J. Voegle, J. Waage and J. van Lenteren. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, 1988. 644 pp.

White Grubs and Their Management. By A. K. Raodeo and S. V. Deshpande. 1987. (Research Bulletin Vol. 11, Marathwada Agricultural University Parghani (India)), 77pp, 6 plates, 35 figs.     

Technological Economics of Crop Protection and Pest Control

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THE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF CROP PROTECTION. Dr Hubert Martin. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1973. ISBN 07131 2382 6. pp. viii + 423. Price £12.00.

APHID TECHNOLOGY. Edited by H. F. van Emden. Academic Press, London and New York, 1972. ISBN 0 12 714150 2, pp. xiv + 344. Price £6.00.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE APHIDIDAE OF THE WORLD. Clyde F. Smith Technical Bulletin No. 216 North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1972. pp. 717. Price not given.

THE AUSTRALIAN SELECTIVE WEED CONTROL HANDBOOK 1973. J. T. Swarbrick. Herbicide Recommendations, 3A Ipswich Street, Toowoomba 4350, Australia, pp. 203. Price not given.

GUIDE TO HAND-OPERATED AND ANIMAL-DRAWN EQUIPMENT. Intermediate Technology Development Group, London. pp. 84. Price £1.50.

NITROGEN FERTILIZATION AND MANAGEMENT IN TROPICAL RICE. P. A. Sanchez. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 213, 1972. pp. 31.

TROPICAL PEST BULLETIN No 2. Analytical method for assessing yield losses caused by pests on cereal crops with and without pesticides. E. Judenko. The Centre for Overseas Pest Research, College House, Wrights Lane, London W8 5SJ, 1973. ISBN 0 85135 061 5. Price 40p. pp. 31     

Notes on Weed Problems Discussed at the Indonesian Workshop on Food 1968

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MAJOR RESEARCH IN UPLAND RICE. International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, 1975. Pp. 255. Price US $2.00 surface mail, US $5.00 by airmail.

INTRODUCING WHO. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1976. ISBN 92 4 156049 5. Pp. 88. Price: Sw. fr. 10.00.

UNDEREXPLOITED TROPICAL PLANTS WITH PROMISING ECONOMIC VALUE. National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 1975. Pp. ix + 188. Free.

THE CONSTANT PEST. A SHORT HISTORY OF PESTS AND THEIR CONTROL. George Ordish. Published by Peter Davies, London, 1976. ISBN 432 11300 2. Pp. 240. Price £6.50.

PEST CONTROL: AN ASSESSMENT OF PRESENT AND ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES. Volume 1, Contemporary pest control practices and prospects; The report of the executive committee. Anonymous. National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 1975. ISBN 0 309 02410 3. Pp.506. Price US $11.75.

AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES. P. Richards (Ed.). International African Institute in association with the Environment Training Programme, Dakar, 1976. ISBN 0 85302 046 9. Pp.118. Price £1.50. (£1.30 for members). (Published simultaneously in English and French editions).

CITRUS DISEASES AND DISORDERS: AN ALPHABETIZED COMPENDIUM WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO FLORIDA. L. C. Knorr. University of Florida Press, 1973. ISBN 0 8130 0383 0. Pp.163. Price US $10.00.

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT. G. W. Arnold and C. T. de Wit (Eds). Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, Wageningen, 1976. ISBN 90 220 0593 3. Pp. 108. Price Dfl 20.

INSECT COLLECTING IN THE TROPICS. D. N. McNutt. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 1976. ISBN 0 85135 084 4. Pp.68. Price £1.30.

PANS RICE MANUAL     

Report on some Work of the Entomological Laboratory OHS,Hodonin, Czechoslovakia

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TERMITES THEIR RECOGNITION AND CONTROL. W. Victor Harris. Second edition. Longman, London, 1971. pp.186, pl. 56. Price £4.50

INTEGRATED CONTROL OF PESTS IN FARM AND GARDEN. S. P. Simmonds. Devon Trust for Nature Conservation, 1972. pp. 15. Price £0.20.

CHEMICALS CONTROLLING INSECT BEHAVIOUR. Edited by Morton Beroza. Academic Press, New York and London, 1970. pp. 170. Price £4.65.

PHYTOTOXINS IN PLANT DISEASES. Edited by R. K. S. Wood, A. Ballio, and A. Graniti. Academic Press, London and New York, 1972. pp. xiii + 530. Price £8.50

HOT-WATER TREATMENT OF PLANT MATERIAL. Second Edition. Bulletin 201. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. HMSO, London, 1972. pp. iv + 46, pl. 4. Price £0.42.

KENYA BUSH CONTROL. Prepared by E. C. S. Little for the Government of Kenya. Funded by UNDP, FAO. Nairobi, 1972. pp. 88.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INDONESIAN WEED SCIENCE CONFERENCE. Edited by M. Soerjani. Contribution No. 1, Weed Science Society of Indonesia, 1971. pp. 215. Price for student members of WSSI US$ 1.25; for members US$ 2.50; for non-members US$ 3.50.

PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT. VOLUME 1, PARTS I AND II. Edited by R. White-Stevens. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1971. Part I: pp. 270, refs 655. Price £9.50. Part II: pp. 629, refs 1378. Price £13.60.

THE PROBLEMS OF PERSISTENT CHEMICALS. IMPLICATIONS OF PESTICIDES AND OTHER CHEMICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971. pp. 113. Price £0.92.

PESTICIDE CHEMISTRY. VOLUMES I-VI.* Proceedings of the Second International IUPAC Congress of Pesticide Chemistry, Tel-Aviv, February 1971. Edited by A. S. Tahori. Gordon and Breach Scientific Publishers Inc., London, 1972. Price for six-volume set £41.65. VOLUME I. INSECTICIDES. pp. 496. Price £8.35.

VOLUME III. CHEMICAL RELEASERS IN INSECTS. pp. viii + 227. Price £5.20.

VOLUME IV. METHODS IN RESIDUE ANALYSIS. pp. xi + 605. Price £10.40.     

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Our Developing World. L. Dudley Stamp. Faber. New and revised edition, 1968.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY VOL. 14. Editors T. E. Mittler and R. F. Smith. Annual Reviews, Inc., 1969. Pages viii + 478. Price $9.00.

PRINCIPLES OF INSECT CHEMOSTERIL ISATION. Edited by G. C. LaBrecque and C. N. Smith. North-Holl and Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1968. Pages viii + 354. £7.12.0.

THE PROBLEMS OF BIRDS AS PESTS. Institute of Biology Symposium No. 17. Edited by R. K. Murton and E. N. Wright. Academic Press, 1968. Pages xiv + 254. Price 70/-.

PESTS OF SUGAR CANE. Editors J. R. Williams, J. R. Metcalfe, R. W. Mungomery and R. Mathes. Elsevier, 1969. Pages xiii + 568, Price £10.15.0.

PLANT DISEASES AND THEIR CHEMICAL CONTROL, by E. Evans. Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 8 ½″ × 5 ¼″, pp. 288, hard covers, 1968. Price 70/-.

PLANT NEMATOLOGY IN AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA by P. R. Thomas, C. E. Taylor. Tech. Comm. 39, Commonwealth Bureau of Helminthology, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Famham Royal, 1968. Pages 83, Price 60/-.

INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH IN PLANT NEMATOLOGY - AN FAO GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND CONTROL OF PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES by A. L. Taylor, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome 1967. Pages 133.

NUTRITIONAL DISEASES IN GLASSHOUSE TOMATOES. K. W. Smilde, J. P. N. L. Roorda Van Eysinga. Publisher: Centre for Agricultural publishing and documentation Wageningen. 7 ½″ × 5 ½″. pp 47. 26 colour plates. Dfl. 17.50.

WEED CONTROL MANUAL AND HERBICIDE GUIDE 1969. Published by Meister Publishing Company, Willoughby, Ohio 44094, USA. Price $4.00 (pocket-sized edition $5.00).

WEED CONTROL HANDBOOK, 5th Edition, Edited by J. D. Fryer and S. A. Evans. Volume 1, Principles, pp xx+ 494, $3.5.0d. Volume 2, Recommendations pp xx+ 325, $1.7.6d. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 5, Alfred Street, Oxford.     

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NEMATODES OF TROPICAL CROPS. Technical Communication of the Commonwealth Bureau of Helminthology, No. 40. Medium 8vo., Cloth Boards, Tropical Binding, pp. 355 This book coded CBH/TC40 is available from: CAB Central Sales Branch, Farnham House, Farnham Royal, Slough, Bucks, England. Price £4. 0s. 0d. ($ 10.40)

PLANT NEMATOLOGY, W. R. Jenkins and D. P. Taylor. Reinhold, New York, 1967. pp. xvji + 270. £5.16s. 6d.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PLANT DISEASES. B. E. J. Wheeler. John Wiley &; Sons Ltd. London. 1969, pp. ix + 374. Text references and index. Price £3. 5s. 0d.

PRINCIPLES OF PLANT AND ANIMAL PEST CONTROL. Volume 4. Control of Plant Parasitic Nematodes. Publication 1696 of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1968, pp. xii + 172. Price $5.00.

MALAS HIERBAS EN CAFETALES DE EL SALVADOR (Weeds of coffee in El Salvador) by J. A. Lagos and E. F. Calles (in Spanish). Institute Salvadoreno de Investigaciones del Cafe, Santa Tecla, El Salvador, pp. 36. Price not stated.

WEEDS IN IRAQ by G. S. Hassawy, S. A. Tammimi and H. Al-lzzi. Iraq Ministry of Agriculture, Botany Division, Technical Bulletin No. 167, March 1968. pp. 256. Obtainable from Ministry of Agriculture, Botany Division, Baghdad, Iraq. Price not stated.

THE COTTON MANUAL - A field work guide to modern cotton growing for agricultural extension workers in the southern region of Malawi, pp. 75.

SISAL. G. W. Lock. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London. 2nd edition 1969, pp. xix and map + 365. References and index. Price £3. 0s. 0d.

CHEMICALS FOR PEST CONTROL. G. S. Hartley and T. F. West. Pergamon Press Ltd., 1969. First Edition. Pages xv + 316. Price £2. 5s. 0d./ £2. 25p (flexicover. £1. 15s. 0d./£1. 75p).

ADVANCES IN PEST CONTROL RESEARCH. VOLUME 8. Edited by R. L. Metcalf. Published by John Wiley &; Sons. Ltd., Baffins Lane, Chichester, Sussex, pp. 255. Price 7. 0s. 0d.

Behaviour and fate of s-triazines in Soils. C. I. Harris, D. D. Kaufonan, T. J. Sheets, R. G. Nasfi and P. C. Kearney. Refs. 188, pp. 55.

Insect sex pheromones. H. H. Shorey, L. K. Gaston and R. N. Jefferson. Refs. 211, pp. 70.

The bipyridylium herbicides. A. Calderbank. Refs. 225, pp. 109.

WORLD CROP PROTECTION Volume 1. Pests and diseases by J. H. Stapley and F. C. H. Gayner, pp. 270 Volume 2. Pesticides by K. A. Hassail, pp. 250 lliffe Books, 1969. Prices: Vol.! £4. 15s. 0d., Vol.2 £4. 5s. 0d., if ordered together £8. 10s. 0d.

PESTICIDE SCIENCE Journal of International Research and Technology on Crop Protection and Pest Control

TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION

THE ZOOLOGICAL RECORD     

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ECOLOGY OF PESTICIDES. A. W. A. Brown. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1978. ISBN 0 471 10790 5. Pp. 521. Price £17.65.

MODERN WEED SCIENCE — IN THE TROPICS AND SUB-TROPICS. O. P. Gupta and P. S. Lamba. Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, India, 1978. Pp. 421. Price Rs 125.00 or US $25.00.

NEMATODES — THE UNSEEN ENEMY. N. G. A. Hague. Du Pont Information Service, Geneva, Switzerland, 1978. Pp. 20. Free

PESTICIDES. PREPARATION AND MODE OF ACTION. R. Cremlyn. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1978. ISBN 0 471 99631 9. Pp. ix + 240. Price £12.00.

ECOLOGY OF PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES. D. C. Norton. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1978 ISBN 0 471 03188 7. Pp. 268. Price £16.95, US S31.70.

THE POWDERY MILDEWS. Edited by M. Spencer. Academic Press, London, 1978. ISBN 0 12 656850 2. Pp. xix + 565. Price £28.00. US$54.75.

WHITEFLY OF THE WORLD: A SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF THE ALEYRODIDAE (HOMOPTERA) WITH HOST PLANT AND NATURAL ENEMY DATA. L. A. Mound and S. H. Halsey. British Museum (Natural History) and J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester and New York, 1978. ISBN 0 471996343. Pp. 340. Price £12.50

CIH KEYS TO THE NEMATODE PARASITES OF VERTEBRATES No. 5. Keys to the genera of the Superfamily Metastrongyloidea. R. C. Anderson, A. G. Chabaud and S. Willmott. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, UK, 1978. ISSN 0305 2729. Pp. 4. Price £2.20.     

Suggested Standard Method for Field Tests with Wooden Stakes

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PESTICIDES — AN AUTO-TUTORIAL APPROACH. G. W. Ware. W. H. Freeman San Francisco, USA and Reading, UK, 1975. Pp. 191

PLANTS CONSUMED BY MAN. B. Brouk. Academic Press, London, 1975. ISBN 0-12-1336450X. Pp. ix + 479, illustrated. Price £14.80.

MAJOR CROP PESTS IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA, Agricultural Division Bulletin No. 138. A. Yunus A. Balasubramanian. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jalan Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur, 1975. Pp. 182. Price Malayan $3.00.

1975 WEED CONTROL MANUAL AND HERBICIDE GUIDE. Meister Publishing Co., 37841 Euclid Ave., Willoughby, Ohio, 44094, USA. Price $5.00.

PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD. Report of the 1974 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, 1975, No. 574. ISBN 92 4 120574 1. Pp. 37. Price Sw. fr. 6.0. (French, Russian, and Spanish editions in preparation).

ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. B. Vasanlharaj David T. Kumaraswami. Popular Book Depot, Madras 600, 034, 1975. Pp. 507. Price Rs. 25 Library edition Rs. 30, $10.00, £4.00

ECOLOGY AND CONTROL OF VECTORS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. Twenty-first Report of the WHO Expert Committee on Insecticides. World Health Organization Technical Report Series, 1975, No. 561. Pp. 35. Price Sw. fr. 6.0. (French, Russian, and Spanish editions in preparation). Available from WHO Distribution and Sales, 1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland.

WEED CONTROL IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Michel Lambert. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, Handbook No. 10, 1973. Pp. 119.

AQUATIC WEED IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL MANUAL. A. P. Burkhalter et al. Florida Department of Natural Resources, USA, Pp. 100. Price $2.50.

PREVALENT WEEDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA. J. G. L. Garcia B. MacBryde, A. R. Molina O. Herrera-MacBryde. International Plant Protection Centre, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, 1975. Pp. 162.

KEY FOR THE FIELD IDENTIFICATION OF APTEROUS AND ALATE CEREAL APHIDS WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. R. N. B. Prior. Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Publications), London, 1974. Plates 8, Figs. 8. Price £2.10.

THE GENERA OF FUNGI SPORULATING IN PURE CULTURE. Second edition. J. A. von Arx. J. Cramer FL-9490 Vaduz, Germany, 1974. ISBN 3 7682 06939 Pp. 315. Price DM100

AFRICA THE DEVASTATED CONTINENT? (Monographiae Biologicae, Volume 26) A. de Vos. Dr W. J. Junk b.v., Publishers 1975. ISBN 90 6193 078 2. Pp. 240. Dutch Guilders 65.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL MATERIALS. E. Allen H. M. Grimshaw J. A. Parkinson C. Quarmby. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1974. ISBN 0 632 00321 9. Pp. x + 565. Price £12.50.     

Insecticidal Control of Pineus sp. (Homoptera: Adelgidae) in East Africa

Village Republics: economic conditions for collective action in South India. R. Wade, 1988. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0–521–30146–7

Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania and Southeast Asia. L. Manderson (ed), 1986. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0–521–32354–1 (hardback).

Peasant Economics: farm households and agrarian development. F. Ellis, 1985. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0–521–31008–3 £11.95 (paperback) 0–521–32446–7 £35.00 (hardback)

Agricultural Pests of India and South East Asia. A. S. Atwal. Kaljani Publishers, India 1986, pp. 529 + XII Rupees 175.00

A Farmer's Primer on Growing Soybean on Riceland. By R. K. Pandey, 1987. International Rice Research Institute and International Insitute of Tropical Agriculture. 216p. ISBN 971–104–168–5.

Liquid Calibration Handbook. By C. W. Kroon. Thomson Publications. 2nd. Edition, 1987, pp. 221. U.S. $25.00.

3rd Gallagher World Wildlife Power Fencing Conference. Gallagher Electronics Ltd., Private Bag, Hamilton, New Zealand

Integrated Pest Control in Viticulture (£25), Integrated Tsetse Fly Control (£22.50). Integrated and Biological Control in Protected Crops (£22.50). Published for the E.E.C. by A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1987.     

Current studies on Atherigona indica - a pest of wheat

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THE PESTICIDE MANUAL. A WORLD COMPENDIUM. Edited by C. R. Worthing. British Crop Protection Council, Croydon, 1979. ISBN 0 901436 44 5. Pp. 655. Price £20.00.

WHO'S WHO IN WORLD AGRICULTURE. 2 volumes. Editorial staff, Francis Hodgson. Longmans, London and Harlow, 1979. ISBN 0 582 90106 5. Pp. 831. Price £75.00.

CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. Book 1. Principles. Book 2. Practices. A. I. Henry. MacMillan Caribbean Ltd, Basingstoke, 1979. ISBN 0 333 233891. Pp. 202 (book 1), 216 (book 2). Price £2.25 (book 1), £2.30 (book 2).

ECONOMIC THRESHOLDS AND SAMPLING OF HELIOTHIS SPECIES ON COTTON, CORN, SOYBEANS AND OTHER HOST PLANTS. Compiled by Economic Thresholds and Sampling Subcommittee (Chairman W. L. Sterling). Southern Co-operative Series Bulletin No. 231, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas, 1979. Pp. 159.

FUNGICIDES IN PLANT DISEASE CONTROL. Second edition. Y. L. Nene and P. N. Thapliyal. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, 1979. Pp. 508. Price Indian Rs. 15.75

INTRODUCTION TO WEED SCIENCE. Beatriz L. Mercado. Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, Laguna, Philippines, 1979. Pp. 292. Price, not known

GRASS WEEDS IN WORLD AGRICULTURE — IDENTIFICATION IN THE FLOWERLESS STATE. S. Behrendt and M. Hanf, BASF, Ludwigshafen, 1979. Pp. 160. Price £5.20.

SMALL SCALE IRRIGATION. P. Stem. International Irrigation Information Center, Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London 1979. ISBN 0 903031 64 7. Pp. 152. Price £3.95.

SEEING &; PERCEIVING: FILMS IN A WORLD OF CHANGE. Neil Taylor and Robin Richardson. Concord Films Council, 201 Felixstowe Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9BJ, England. 1979. ISBN 0 950600 0 0. Pp. 36. Price 60p.