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The article presents a content analysis of newspaper coverage of the Trenton Six Case. The treatment of the case in a sample of newspapers is compared to discover the extent to which political considerations, racial interest and propinquity influenced reporting. Advances in the utilization of content analysis techniques may proceed in two ways. First, through the improvement of codification procedures, one may be able to strengthen reliability and draw on subtler and less tractable subject matter. A second kind of opportunity has been apparently less interesting to social scientists. This requires the selection of a situation of relative simplicity, the use of few and clear diagnostic items, and the directing of the analysis to the comparisons of sample units rather than to interpretation in depth. It should not be necessary to say that content analysis of whatever kind and however problem-oriented has severe limitations unless the content analyzed can be related on the one hand to audience perception, interpretation, and impact and on the other hand to the intent of the controllers of the medium.

The article discusses the influence of population density on the style of social life. It discusses how the sociability of animals permits a sociability in the men, and how animals have created the economic and political structures in the human group. It mentions that the dispersion or concentration in population may determine other circumstances and developments, for example, isolated families cannot evolve the division of labor that is possible in bigger communities where specialization is likely to arise. It also mentions that the growth of population may inhibit the development process which could solve the population problem, and each point by which the birth rate falls makes the process of saving and investment, and hence development, that much easier.

The article offers news briefs related to bioscience in the U.S. A three-quarter acres of shoreline property in Guilford, Long Island was acquired by the Yale University of New Haven, Connecticut. Cedric L. Porter has retired as curator of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Arley T. Bever has been named as deputy planning director at the National Science Foundation.

The article offers information on the Hunt Botanical Library which was opened by Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October 1961. It states that the Hunt Library building was given by botanist Roy A. Hunt from Pittsburgh who also gifted the library of books in the plant sciences, the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library. It mentions that the financial structure of the library is independent of CIT operation and development funds and is subject to review and approval by CIT as well as the Hunt Foundation. It mentions that the library has about 11,000 titles of bound volumes and 2,500 of pamphlets and collection of botanical prints and paintings, autograph letters of 18th and 19th century botanists and manuscripts, and portraits of botanists.