New Releases by Margaret Bateson

Lift the flaps of this interactive pop-up adventure to see if Billy Bunny will find the butterfly he is searching for, or if the butterfly will find him.

Offering an entire Victorian street scene with every detail recreated in intricate illustrations, a popular pop-up series continues with a Victorian village complete with four free-standing figures, food stalls, and a working Punch and Judy tent. Original.

Pages fold out to create a Victorian market scene, with free standing figures, stalls, etc.

This pop-up farm comes complete with panoramic views, pastures, fields, gates, a well preserved period farmhouse, stables, pigeon loft, stream, mill house, working waterwheel, pigsty and many other delightful details.

This ingenious, fold-out doll''s house is strong enough to hold additional free-standing furniture. The house contains a master bedroom, nursery, hallway, living room, dining room, conservatory, kitchen and luxury bathroom.

Open all four sections, tie back the two blue ribbons, and a fully constructed eight-room dollhouse emerges from between the two slim covers. An affordable taste of the Victorian era, A Victorian Dollhouse is perfect for anyone who cherishes Victorian ephemera.

Partial 16S rRNA sequences for eight thermophilic fermentative bacteria, seven of which were isolated from cyanobacterial mats in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park, are reported. All appear to be members of the "Gram-positive low G+C subdivision", including the Gram-negative staining Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus. T. acetoethylicus clusters tightly with two other asporogenous isolates, Thermoanaerobium brockii and Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum. Three acetogenic clostridia, including two strains of Clostridium thermoauthotrophicum, and Clostridium thermoaceticum, form another tight cluster. Clostridium thermosulfurogenes forms a distinct branch between these two clusters.

Photosynthesis by Synechococcus lividus, the sole oxygenic phototroph inhabiting the surface of the 55°C cyanobacterial mat in Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone National Park, causes superoxic and alkaline conditions which promote glycolate photoexcretion. At O2 concentrations characteristic of the top 2 mm of mat during the day, up to 11.8% of NaH14CO3 fixed in the light was excreted, and glycolate accounted for up to 58% of the excreted photosynthate. Glycolate was neither incorporated nor metabolized by S. lividus, but it was incorporated by filamentous microorganisms in the mat. Incubation of mat samples with NaH''4CO3 resulted in labeling of both S. lividus and filaments, but the addition of nonradioactive glycolate increased the level of 14C in the aqueous phase and decreased the extent of labeling of filaments. This suggests that cross-feeding of glycolate from S. lividus to filamentous heterotrophs occurs and that underestimation of the extent of photoexcretion is probable.