Volume 275 Issue 5675, 7 September 1978

Carter juggles with fast breeder and natural gas

• John Douglas

Boycott of Soviet contacts is for individuals, says NAS

• Vera Rich

Soyuz is not a trolley-bus, but Comecon flights continue

• Vera Rich

Taj Mahal out of danger?

India plans to invest in tethered balloon technology

• Dilip M. Salwi

Correction

India on stand-by for a plague of locusts

• Dilip M. Salwi

Vietnam still looking for foreign aid

• Alastair Hay

Farming lobby

• KENNETH MELLANBY

Nitrates and nitrites cannot be eliminated

• E. BOYLAND

Foxing fungus

• N. W. PIRIE

Compulsory boycott

• ANTOINE ELENS

Making mincemeat of our common language

• KENNETH MELLANBY

Marsh mallow grows in Britain

• ROBERT K. G. TEMPLE

Sex and cancer

• RALPH CHERNOFF

Thin films: present and future

• Robert M. Hill

Antibodies to probe development

• John K. Heath

History of biology at the Naples Zoological Station

• Robert Olby

Petrified cotton?

• F. L. Vogel
• J. N. Zemel

Globular clusters

• Virginia Trimble

Bacterial gene into monkey cells

• John Jenkins

Forty years of plant mitochondriology

• A. L. Moore

Erratum

ASSESS II: a simulated mission of Spacelab

• H. M. Wegmann
• R. Hermann
• J. de Waard

Formation of the early Earth regolith

• M. D. Nussinov
• A. A. Vekhov

Andesitic volcanism and crustal evolution

• J. C. Eichelberger

Test of optimal sampling by foraging great tits

• John R. Krebs
• Alejandro Kacelnik
• Peter Taylor

Electrophoretic movement and localization of acetylcholine receptors in the embryonic muscle cell membrane

• Norman Orida
• Mu-ming Poo

Origin of pregalactic microwave background

• MARTIN J. REES

Venus' rotation and atmospheric tides

• ANDREW P. INGERSOLL
• ANTHONY R. DOBROVOLSKIS

Optical detection of local interstellar particles during an out-of-ecliptic mission

• J. MAYO GREENBERG
• D. W. SCHUERMAN

Extent of hot intergalactic gas in the cluster Abell 2218

• M. BIRKINSHAW
• S. F. GULL
• K. J. E. NORTHOVER

Limited solubility of iron in the Sun's interior

• E. L. POLLOCK
• B. J. ALDER

Alfvén waves generated by an inverted plasma energy distribution

• W. J. HUGHES
• D. J. SOUTHWOOD
• J. N. BARFIELD

A fast interferometric chopper for neutrons and X rays

• M. HART
• D. P. SIDDONS

Hydrogen bond dynamics in solution

• J. BOURNAY
• G. N. ROBERTSON

Origin of olivine subgrain boundaries in mantle peridotites

• MICHAEL E. FLEET

Some new measurements on Stonehenge

• R. J. C. ATKINSON

Determination of critical variables in a microbial predator–prey system by catastrophe theory

• M. J. BAZIN
• P. T. SAUNDERS

Asynchronous sexual development determines the breeding system in field beans

• C. PAUL
• P. GATES
• D. BOULTER

Does colour provide an input to human motion perception?

• V. S. RAMACHANDRAN
• R. L. GREGORY

Suppression of oestrogen-induced LH surges by social subordination in talapoin monkeys

• LESLEY A. BOWMAN
• SUSAN R. DILLEY
• E. B. KEVERNE

Lysosomal and mitochondrial heat labile enzymes in ageing human fibroblasts

• A. HOUBEN
• J. REMACLE

Initiation of chemical carcinogenesis requires cell proliferation

• EDMUNDO CAYAMA
• HIROYUKI TSUDA
• EMMANUEL FARBER

C-type viral antigen expression in human placenta

• M. H. SAWYER
• N. E. NACHLAS JR
• S. PANEM

Induction of extensive fimbrial branching in the adult rat brain

• DAN GOLDOWITZ
• CARL W. COTMAN

Positive inotropism of vanadate in cat papillary muscle

• INGELORE HACKBARTH
• WILHELM SCHMITZ
• GUNTHER PHILIPP

Study of the charge-state model for electrophoretic variation using isoelectric focusing of esterase-5 from Drosophila pseudoobscura

• JOHN A. M. RAMSHAW
• WALTER F. EANES

Bile salt sensitivity of Escherichia coli _χ1776

• J. R. HUNTER
• D. C. ELLWOOD
• P. J. GREENAWAY

Expression of λ red genes restores recB-dependent protein X induction in E. coli

• ROBERT M. CROWL
• SIRAJ UDDIN AHMED
• RICHARD P. BOYCE

Haem exposure as the determinate of oxidation–reduction potential of haem proteins

• EARLE STELLWAGEN

Prehistoric standing stone sites

• E. MacKie

Catastrophe theory

• Michael Berry

Molecular biochemistry

• B. Jennings

British bryophytes

• Peter D. Moore

Potato research

• N. W. Simmonds

Quantum electrodynamics textbook

• J. C. Taylor

R. G. W. Norrish, 1897-1978

• C. H. Bamford

J. P. Kendall

• Neil Campbell

Recent scientific and technical books