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MESSRS. E. F. RICKETTS and J. Calvin have revised their well-known book on the littoral fauna of the west coast of America. Written by laymen collectors for the layman, it stimulates his curiosity about the prolific life of the sea-shore and deals with the Subject from the ecological rather than the taknomic point of view. Animal communities of the protected outer coast, open coast, bays and estuaries, and wharf piles are described, each area being again subdivided according to the substratum. These chapters are illustrated by photographs from living animals, making forty-fix plates, and 129 line-drawings. A few of the plates (for example, 39, 43) have lost somewhat in brightness ; but the magnificent colour-plate of Pacific chitons, on its green background, which forms the frontispiece, is a most attractive and useful addition. The littoral section has cross-references from text to plate and vice versa. The original text remains unaltered, except for the correction of minor errors.
Between Pacific Tides
An Account of the Habits and Habitats of some Five Hundred of the Common, Conspicuous Seashore Invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and Northern Mexico. By Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin. Revised edition. Pp. xxvii + 365 + 46 plates. (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press ; London : Oxford University Press, 1948.) 32s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 164, 1066 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641066b0
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