This yearbook presents and interprets trends and discoveries in a review of the science year. There are feature articles on: astronomical research; ballooning for science; space as a laboratory for biologists; mimicry in plants; Africanized honeybees; biotechnology; clusters; personal computing; supercomputers; bats; captive breeding and re-introduction of wildlife; biological pollution monitors; and the trash crisis. The Britannica science update section includes recent revisions of the Macropaedia articles on geochronology and oceans, and a survey of developments in 20 branches of science, alphabetically arranged. The yearbook is available either with a black spine (to match the 32-volume encyclopaedia) or with the older style brown spine at the same price. Please send orders from North America to Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc, Britannica Centre, 310 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60604.

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