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...Blueprint for Survival" that also projects disaster and argues for quick action to end exponential growth. The article gains its authority not from computer studies but from the endorsement of 33 of the U.K.'s most distinguished scientists, including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley, Geneticist C.H. Waddington and Naturalist Peter Scott. Unrestricted industrial and population expansion, they warn, must lead to "the breakdown of society and of the life support systems on this planet-possibly by the end of this century and certainly within the lifetime of our children...
...Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus by Wilfrid Blunt. 256 pages. Viking. $14.95. The study of 18th century science can be an ennobling exercise. Outstanding men rose to survey and catalogue Nature's radiant data into logical systems. In Sweden, Carl Linne -Linnaeus to the world-collected, named and scientifically organized plants for the first time in history. Wilfrid Blunt's richly decorated biography admirably illustrates how Linnaeus' single mindedness and plodding devotion to stamens and pistils laid the foundation of modern botany...
...farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is meat for its mandibles. What makes the gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead, when the bugs escaped their cage, he started a spreading plague. Now virtually all of New England and New Jersey, plus parts of New York and Pennsylvania, are infested by the insatiable insects. Since...
This is corrective-and finally definitive-history issued in "Now hear this" tones from one of scholarship's loftiest quarterdecks. Morison quotes the German statesman-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt: "There are three stages in the popular attitude toward a great discovery: first, men doubt its existence; next, they deny its importance; and finally they give the credit to someone else." Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and other books about Columbus, Morison does all an old salt can to set the log straight about those before and after his favorite explorer...
...destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear down knowledge to start afresh, they will backslide 200,000 years. "Watch out!" Lorenz cautions the students. "If you make a clean sweep of things, you won't go back to the Stone Age, because...