I. Review of Toxic Algae -- Freshwater Blue-green Algae (Cyanobacteria) Toxins - A Review -- Toxins from Marine Blue-green Algae -- Poisons Produced by Dinoflagellates - A Review -- The Toxic Principles of Prymnesium parvum -- II. Occurrence and Ecology of Toxic Cyanobacteria -- Studies on the Ecology, Growth and Physiology of Toxic Microcystis aeruginosa in South Africa -- Autecological Studies on Microcystis -- Is a Plasmid(s) Involved in the Toxicity of Microcystis aeruginosa? -- A Toxic Bloom of Anabaena flos-aquae in Hebgen Reservoir Montana in 1977 -- Morphology of Toxic versus Non-Toxic Strains of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae -- The Occurrence of Toxic Cyanophyte Blooms in Australia -- The Recent Blue-green Algal Blooms of Long Lake, Washington -- The Mosaic Nature of Toxic Blooms of Cyanobacteria -- III. Culturing Methods and Reports of New Toxic Species -- Collection, Purification, and Culture of Cyanobacteria -- Culture of Planktonic Cyanophytes on Agar -- The Effect of Physico-chemical Factors on Growth Relevant to Mass Culture of Axenic Microcystis -- Preliminary Tests of Toxicity of Synechocystis sp. Grown on Wastewater Medium -- Chemical Nature and Mode of Action of a Toxin from Pandorina morum -- IV. Public Health and Toxic Cyanobacteria -- Water-Associated Human Illness in Northeast Pennsylvania and Its Suspected Association with Blue-green Algae Blooms -- Some Aspects Concerning Remote After-effects of Blue-green Algae Toxin Impact on Warm-blooded Animals -- Temporal Association between an Algal Bloom and Mutagenicity in a Water Reservoir -- Cyanobacteria and Endotoxins in Drinking Water Supplies -- Potential for Groundwater Contamination by Algal Endotoxins -- V. Isolation, Physiology, Toxicology and Detection of Cyanobacteria Toxins -- Toxicity Studies with Blue-green Algae from Norwegian Inland Waters -- Isolation, Characterization and Pathology of the Toxin from the Blue-green Alga Microcystis aeruginosa -- Toxicological Studies on Microcystis -- Effects of a Hepatic Toxin from the Cyanophyte Microcystis aeruginosa -- Studies on Aphantoxin from Aphanizomenon flos-aquae in New Hampshire -- Chemical Studies on Toxins from the Blue-green Alga Aphanizomenon flos-aquae -- Studies on the Fluorometric Determination of the Toxins of the Blue-green Alga Aphanizomenon flos-aquae -- A Fluorometric Technique for the Detection and Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Poisons -- Simplified Monitoring of Anatoxin-A by Reverse-Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography and the Sub-acute Effects of Anatoxin-A in Rats -- Isolation and Characterization of Endotoxin from Cyanobacteria (Blue-green Algae) -- Directory to the Literature on Toxic Cyanobacteria (Blue-green Algae) -- List of Contributors.