An Elusive Group of Marine Organisms

Abstract

THE University of California at Berkeley, Cal., supported no doubt by large revenues from the State, sets a noble example in publishing valuable contributions to knowledge. In addition to about thirty octavo series in zoology, physiology, and other sciences, the University Press issues large quarto Memoirs, of which the fiftk volume is Kofoid and Swezy's “Dinoflagellata,” a very notable work of 570 pages and twelve^ coloured plates. It is the result of observations made by Prof. Kofoid and his pupils over a series; of years from 1901 onwards at the marine laboratories of the University of California and the more; recently established Scripps Institution for Biological Research at La Jolla—both by work at sea off the coast of Southern California and by investigation of the beach sands.

The free-living Unarmored Dinoflagellata.

By C. A. Kofoid Olive Swezy. (Memoirs of the University of California, Vol. 5.) Pp. viii + 562 + 12 plates. (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1921.)