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Snowballs

J3hn Casey Public Affairs C. P. Snow (Macmillan, £3.00) Lord Snow describes this collection of essays as "a selection of the public statements that I have made from 1959 to the......

Shorter Notices

The Compleat Naturalist Wilfrid Blunt (Collins £3.50) For a very reasonable price, this book provides a lively introduction to the life and work of Carl Linnaeus, enhanced by......