Dear Colleagues, Some of you knew Jake Houck, who was a professor at Humboldt State University. Jake passed away last summer and I offered to help his daughter get his extensive collection of marine mammal books into the hands of people who could use them. Many of these are older, rare items. We are making the books and reprints available to colleagues at reasonable prices. All money raised will go to ¡VivaVaquita!, a non-profit organization to assist research and conservation efforts for the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), the World’s most endangered marine mammal species. Payments must be made in US dollars. Contact me <sclymene@aol.com> for complete list of books/monographs/reprints available. Some highlights: Brown, S. G. (1954). "Dispersal in blue and fin whales." Discovery Reports 26: 355-384. $40. Brown, S. G. (1962). "The movements of fin and blue whales within the Antarctic zone." Discovery Reports 33: 1-54. $45 (loose) Goode, G. B., Ed. (1884). The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Section 1. Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Government Printing Office, 895 pp. $95 (hardcover) Hershkovitz, P. (1966). "Catalog of living whales." Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: 259 pp. $25 Kellogg, R. (1966). "Fossil marine mammals from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Maryland and Virginia, Volume 2, pt. 3. New species of extinct Miocene Sirenia, pt. 4. A new Odontocete from the Calvert Miocene of Maryland". Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum Bulletin 247: 65-101. $34 Kenyon, K. W. (1969). "The sea otter in the eastern Pacific Ocean." North American Fauna 68: 352 pp. $24. Kernan, J. D. (1918). "The skull of Ziphius cavirostris." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 38: 349-394. $28 Misc. Authors. Collection of original reprints of 411 papers on marine mammals, mostly from the 1960s-2000s, but some from the early 1900s. If interested, you may request a listing of the authors included. $120 Mitchell, E., Ed. (1975). Review of biology and fisheries for smaller cetaceans. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 32 (Special Issue), 351 pp. $30 Murie, J. (1874). "Researches upon the anatomy of the Pinnipedia.-(Part III.) Descriptive anatomy of the sea-lion (Otaria jubata)." Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 8(9): 501-582. $37 Winn, H. E. and B. L. Olla, Eds. (1979). Behavior of Marine Animals, Volume 3: Cetaceans. New York, Plenum Press. $65 (hardcover) Best wishes, Tom ********************************************************************* Thomas A. Jefferson, Ph.D. Clymene Enterprises / Cetos Research Organization 5495 Camino Playa Malaga San Diego, CA 92124 Tel. (858) 278-4240 Email: sclymene@aol.com Web: http://www.cetosresearch.org/about/associates.htm Marine Mammals of the World site: http://www. elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/713331/description#description *********************************************************************