What is a river? / Ruth Patrick : Rivers: a geomorphic and chemical overview / Robert R. Curry -- What is a river?: a zoological description / Kenneth W. Cummins -- Plant ecology in flowing water / John L. Blum -- Commentary / Ruth Patrick -- Uses of a river: past and present / E. D. LeCren : Man's impact on the Columbia River / Parker Trefethen -- The Delaware river: a study in water quality management / Robert V. Thomann -- Man and the Illinois River / William C. Starrett -- The Nile River: a case history / Desmond Hammerton -- Case history: the river Thames / Kenneth H. Mann -- Uses of the Danube River / Rienhard Liepolt -- Commentary / E. D. LeCren -- Effects of river uses / Theodore P. Vande Sande : Regulated discharge and the stream environment / Jack C. Fraser -- Morphometric changes / T. Blench -- Sedimentation (suspended solids) / H. A. Einstein -- A comparative assessment of thermal effects in some British and North American rivers / T. E. Langford -- Effects of pesticides and industrial waste on surface water use / William A. Brungs -- Radionuclides in river systems / Daniel J. Nelson, S. V. Kaye, and R. S. Booth -- Nutrients / Walter M. Sanders, III -- Commentary / Theodore P. Vande Sande -- Rationalization of multiple use / David J. Allee : Rationalization of multiple use of rivers / John Cairns, Jr. -- Multiple use of river systems - an economic framework / James Crutchfield -- Political aspects of multiple use / John D. Dingell -- Summary of symposium / Justin W. Leonard