Pacific

Islands

Monthly September, 1984

September, 1984

Malaria*

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American Samoa US$l.75 Australia ’ASI 50 Cook Islands NZ$l 50 F 'i' F 51.50 Hawaii USSI 95 Kiribati , A 51.75 Nauru - A 51.75 , New Caledonia CFPiDe-/

New Zealand MZS2 50 Niue NZSI 75 Norfolk Island A 51.50 Papua New Guinea KSI 50 Solomon Islands SSI .50 Tahiti CFP22O Tonga Pi 50 Tuvalu Asl 75

Usa U 552.25

USTT and Guam US$l.95 Vanuatu VT1.50 Western Samoa ... T 2.10 ■Recommended retail price only Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBPI2IO

The Cover

Like some monster out of “Star Wars,” a mosquito prowls the asteroid-like surface of a hu man arm, then plunges its nee dle-sharp proboscis to suck its victim’s blood. The photo graphs we publish here and on our cover, are by Swedish photographer, Lennart Nilsson, who used a scanning electron microscope to achieve these enormous magnifications. They won the Hasselblad Foundation prize of $25,000. Our pictures by kind permission of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History Cover design by Barry Badger.