of Volume 2. - Special Invited Lecture. - Aerodynamic aspects of animal flight. - Swimming of Larger Animals Part I. - Muscular and energetic aspects of fish swimming (Invited General Lecture). - The response of fish to shearing surfaces in the water. - The forces resisting locomotion in bluefish. - Speed power and drag measurements of dolphins and porpoises. - Efficiency of pectoral-fin propulsion of Cymatogaster aggregata. - Hydrodynamics of the body of Dytiscus marginalis (Dytiscidae Coleoptera). - Swimming energetics of the larval anchovy. - Swimming of planktonic Cyclops species (Copepoda Crustacea): pattern movements and their control. - Swimming of Larger Animals Part II. - Hydromechanical aspects of fish swimming (Invited General Lecture). - Lunate-tail swimming propulsion. - Laminar boundary-layer development and transition of fish-shaped bodies of revolution. - Hydrodynamic drag reduction due to fish slimes. - The swimming of slender fish-like bodies in waves. - Extraction of flow energy by fish and birds in a wavy stream. - Some hydrodynamical aspects of fish schooling. - Experimental studies of human swimming at the Netherlands Ship Model Basin. - Flight of Birds and Insects Part I. - Flapping flight and power in birds and insects conventional and novel mechanisms (Invited General Lecture). - Hovering flight of the dragonfly Aeschna juncea L. kinematics and aerodynamics. - Non-steady-state aerodynamics of the flight of Encarsia formosa. - Aerodynamic forces and their calculation in insect flight. - On the mechanics of flight of small insects. - Insect aerodynamics near hovering. - Air flow and the flight of a noctuid moth. - Flight of Birds and Insects Part II. - Aerodynamics and energetics of vertebrate fliers (Invited General Lecture). - Hovering flight in the piedflycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). - Flight metabolism of flying foxes. - On the efficiency increasing interaction of thrust producing lifting surfaces. - A note on flapping flight with surging. - Bird aerodynamic experiments. - The effect of span-wise variations in amplitude on the thrust-generating performance of a flapping thin wing. - Soaring birds as Maxwell demons. - Ornithopter aerodynamic experiments. - Author Index. Language: English