Volume 268 Issue 5621, 18 August 1977

Heading for Honolulu

• Vera Rich

Taiwan: Losing representation

• David Davies

Sweden: Spending a packet

• Wendy Barnaby

Netherlands

• Casper Schuuring

In Brief

Berkeley women

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Optimal foraging: theory and experiment

• John Krebs

Cosmic ray composition at high energies

Ribsomal switches

• E. G. Richards

New sulphide mineral discovered

• Peter J. Smith

Pion production in heavy-ion collisions

• P. E. Hodgson

The oddity of blue

• J. D. Mollon

Lampbrush chromosomes brought up to date

• J. O. Bishop

Caves as islands

• Robert M. May

A hundred years ago

Taxonomy and the origin and evolution of cultivated plants in the New World

• Barbara Pickersgill

Oceanic residence times of trace metals

• J. M. Bewers
• P. A. Yeats

DNA arrangement in isometric phage heads

• W. C. Earnshaw
• S. C. Harrison

Initiation of chick cell division by trypsin action at the cell surface

• Darrell H. Carney
• Dennis D. Cunningham

The binary pulsar observed at four radio frequencies

• A. G. LYNE
• R. T. RITCHINGS

X-ray bursts from dense clouds

• A. C. FABIAN

Continuous increase of Hubble modulus behind clusters of galaxies

• L. NOTTALE
• J. P. VIGIER

Polysaccharides and infrared spectra of galactic sources

• F. HOYLE
• N. C. WICKRAMASINGHE

Mechanism for formaldehyde polymer formation in interstellar space

• V. I. GOLDANSKII

Dust clouds and frictional generation of glow discharges on Mars

• A. A. MILLS

Daytime ionosphere scintillation associated with geomagnetic storms

• M. R. DESHPANDE
• H. O. VATS
• B. S. MURTHY

Volcanic dust veils and North Atlantic climatic change

• P. M. KELLY

Oxygen isotope stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene coral terraces in Barbados

• N. J. SHACKLETON
• R. K. MATTHEWS

Biological markers in coal and coal liquefaction products

• C. M. WHITE
• J. L. SHULTZ
• A. G. SHARKEY JR

Stratigraphy of buried soil at Teindland Forest, Scotland

• J. C. C. ROMANS

An Ediacara-type fauna from South Wales

• JOHN C. W. COPE

Tachigalia versicolor is a suicidal neotropical tree

• ROBIN B. FOSTER

Cross-fertilisation in fucoid seaweeds

• G. P. BOLWELL
• J. A. CALLOW
• L. V. EVANS

Hedgehogs use toad venom in their own defence

• EDMUND D. BRODIE JR

Diets of early Miocene African hominoids

• R. F. KAY

Further study of an auditory illusion

• I. P. CHRISTENSEN
• A. H. GREGORY

Racial differences in the frequency of Q and C chromosomal heteromorphisms

• H. A. LUBS
• W. J. KIMBERLING
• R. L. SUMMITT

Androgenetic origin of hydatidiform mole

• TADASHI KAJII
• Koso OHAMA

Genetic model for observed distributions of proportions of haemoglobin in sickle-cell trait

• GARY BRITTENHAM

Absolute visual threshold and scotopic spectral sensitivity in the tawny owl Strix aluco

• GRAHAM R. MARTIN

Maternal effects determine effective lethal phase of carnation-light synthetic lethal in Drosophila melanogaster

• HARRY NICKLA

Age- and region-dependent concanavalin A reactivity of chick wing-bud mesoderm cells

• DOUGLAS F. PAULSEN
• ROBERT A. FINCH

Monogamous T helper cell

• J. M. PHILLIPS
• H. WALDMANN

Dissociation of effector functions in populations of activated macrophages

• EDWARD J. WING
• IAN D. GARDNER
• JACK S. REMINGTON

Antiviral T cell-mediated immunity in Marek's disease

• L. J. N. Ross

Heterospecific cytotoxic cell activity induced during the first three days of acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection in mice

• RAYMOND M. WELSH JR
• ROLF M. ZINKERNAGEL

Protein covalently linked to foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA

• D. V. SANGAR
• D. J. ROWLANDS
• F. BROWN

Participation of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II in replication of influenza viruses

• LAUREL L. R. SPOONER
• RICHARD D. BARRY

Dopamine selectively increases ³H-GABA release from slices of rat substantia nigra in vitro

• J.-C. REUBI
• L. L. IVERSEN
• T. M. JESSELL

Müller cell localisation of glutamine synthetase in rat retina

• ROGER E. RIEPE
• MICHAEL D. NORENBURG

Electrical stimulation of denervated muscles reduces incorporation of methionine into the ACh receptor

• ZACH W. HALL
• C. GARY REINESS

High conductance in an epithelial membrane not due to extracellular shunting

• J. AUGUSTUS
• J. BIJMAN
• J. F. G. SLEGERS

Fluorescent probe detects redistribution of cell calcium during stimulus–secretion coupling

• DOUGLAS E. CHANDLER
• JHON A. WILLIAMS

Evidence for an α-ecdysone cytochrome P-450 mixed function oxidase in insect fat body mitochondria

• W. E. BOLLENBACHER
• S. L. SMITH
• L. I. GILBERT

Potential-dependent transition temperature of ionic channels induced by glutamate in locust muscle

• C. R. ANDERSON
• S. G. CULL-CANDY
• R. MILEDI

Are cell affinity relationships for insect epidermal tissues evidence for combinatorial control?

• JAMES B. NARDI

Control of induction of tubulin synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardi

• DONALD P. WEEKS
• PHILIP S. COLLIS
• MICHAEL A. GEALT

Erratum

Geomagnetism and climate

• ALAN D. HECHT

Geomagnetnism and climate (reply)

• R. W. FAIRBRIDGE

Palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of the Koobi Fora Formation, east of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), Kenya

• JOHN M. HARRIS

Palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of the Koobi Fora Formation, east of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), Kenya (reply)

• JOHN HILLHOUSE

Maya dates AD 352-1296

• D. J. SCHOVE

Science as a never-ending quest

• J. R. Ravetz

Genetic expression in plants

• Daphne J. Osborne

Peasants to tractor drivers

• Jerome Bruner

Biomolecular mixture

• Henryk Eisenberg

Science policy yearbook

• Stuart S. Blume

Early development and gene activity

• J. B. Gurdon

Tilting at windmills

• Kenneth Mellanby

Sir Graham Sutton

• F. Pasquill

A. D. Walsh

• D. E. Hoare
• P. A. Warsop

R. D. Brauer

• J. A. Green

what's new–chromatographs