PESTICIDES AND POLLUTION. By Kenneth Mellanby. New Naturalist No. 50.

(1967) 1972 2nd edition reprint. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Pp221. Colour and b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

"From an objective and scientific standpoint, [the author] examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leadkages, over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain to-day. He sets out to placate neither farmers nor naturalists, but to explain in each case what is happening, to point to both dangers and practical necessities, and to discuss what steps should be taken". Chapters include: Air pollution; Water pollution; radiation; Pollution of the ocean and the shore; Herbicides and weed control; fungicides; Insecticides and insect control; Substances used to control other invertebrate pests; The future - improvement or disaster? An appendix gives the composition of some chemicals mentioned in the text. Well worth a read, especially in the light of what has happened in the years since publication.