Nature Magazine, March 1945, Vol. 38, No. 3

Language: English

Published by American Nature Association, 1945

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American Nature Association, Published 1945. Wraps, pp. 113-168; 29 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings; pictorial cover printed in red and blue on tan stock. In Very Good condition. Illustrated paper covers toned overall, light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, scattered specks of foxing. Staple bound, binding tight. Faint dampstain to upper outer corner of text block with a visible tidemark, light cockling and mild corner creasing. Pages toned but otherwise clean and unmarked.Features Edwin Way Teale's "D D T: The insect-killer that can be either boon or menace" (pp. 121-124, 162), a warning against indiscriminate use of the new insecticide seventeen years before Silent Spring; Teale concludes DDT must remain "a rifle instead of a shotgun weapon." An editorial at p. 145, A World "Free of Insects," also quotes the American Society of Economic Entomologists on the chemical's limitations. Book editor Howard Zahniser, later author of the Wilderness Act of 1964, contributes the Nature in Print column, reviewing Ernst Mayr's Birds of the Southwest Pacific in its year of publication. A Village in the Tree-top, by Alexander F. Skutch, on Montezuma oropendolas in Honduras. Cover of two bluebirds on pussy willow signed by Charles Philip Hexom (1884-1959), a Luther College teacher in Decorah, Iowa who drew Nature Magazine covers from the 1920s into the early 1950s. Wartime advertising throughout, including a War Advertising Council anti-inflation page and a Bausch and Lomb "Ray-Bans in War Service" advertisement.Contents: Nature in Print; View from a Window; Contents Noted; D D T; A Village in the Tree-top; Salt of the Earth; Travel Note; Some Birds That Nest in the North; The Siren Salamander; Some Grow Littler; The American Cougar; In Re Rabbits; Burrowing Owls; Toronto's White Robin; A World "Free of Insects"; A Cougar in the House; Your 1945 Victory Garden; Forecasting Grasshoppers; Feathered Watch-Dog; Torreya, A Tree with Possibilities; Remora, the Shark Rider; Question and Answer; The Zodiacal Light; Orion in Spring; The School Page; Under the Microscope.…

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Title
Nature Magazine, March 1945, Vol. 38, No. 3
Author
Edwin Way Teale; Howard Zahniser; Alexander F. Skutch; Edward A. Preble
Publisher
American Nature Association
Publication year
1945
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Wrappers
Language
English
Dimensions
29 cm
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