Recent Books in American History

Recent Books in Regulation

Reviews of Recent Books

The structure of this book is an interesting variant on familiar text-books of psychology. After a brief introductory chapter on the subject-matter and methods of the science, the student is plunged at once into the technical field of animal psychology. The author admits in his preface that this chapter is " the least well rounded and comprehensive "; and this is true. It is so because many of ...

Recent books edited

B. Beckman: Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program during World War II, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2002, 259 pp., $39, ISBN 0-8218-2889-4 All stories about cryptanalytical work prior and during the World War II read like a thriller. The book under review is no exception. The author, the former head of the cryptanalytical section of FRA (The Radio Agency of th...

Recent Books Received

Recent history of melanism in American peppered moths.

Industrial melanism in peppered moths has been studied most intensively in Britain. The first melanic phenotype (effectively solid black) was recorded near Manchester in 1848. By 1895 about 98% of the specimens near Manchester were melanic, and this once rare phenotype had spread across regions of the country blackened by industrial soot. In rural, unpolluted regions, well away from industrial ...