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(Brisbane), Nelson (New York), Pennycuik (Brisbane). Romanoff (Shrewsbury, Mass.), 

 Saunders (Chicago, 111.), Sawyer (Long Beach, Calif.), Segal (New York), Steinetz (Morris 

 Plains, N.J.), Stone (New York), Thrift (Brisbane), Tindal (Reading), Troen (Boston, Mass.), 

 Venning (Montreal), Villee (Boston, Mass.), Yeates (Brisbane), Zander (Cologne), Zucker- 

 man (Birmingham). 



"BIOCHEMISTRY OF MORPHOGENESIS" 

 1959 



Editor: W. J. Nickerson 



(Proceedings of the IVth International 



Congress of Biochemistry, Vienna, 



1958; Vol. VI, Symposium VI; 



I.U.B. Symposium Series, Vol. 8) 



259 pp., 89 figs. 



Pergamon Press Ltd. 



London, New York, Paris, 



Los Angeles 



Price: 70 s. 



This volume contains the papers presented at a Symposium held as a part 

 of the IVth International Congress of Biochemistry in Vienna in 1958. The 

 Symposium had 30 participants, 13 whom came from the U.S.A. The papers 

 cover morphogenesis in plant, animal and microbial systems. They are arranged 

 in the following sections: "Biochemical control of differentiation in isolated 

 cellular systems" (6 papers); "Regulation of differentiation in the developing 

 organism" (7 papers); "Protein synthesis and cellular differentiation" (6 

 papers); and "Experimental systems for the study of biochemistry of morpho- 

 genesis" (4 papers). A final chapter consists of a synthetic report on the entire 

 Symposium by the editor, occupying 18 pages. The book contains many 

 diagrams and photographs. 



Participants: Biggers (London), Brown (Edinburgh), Burstrdm (Lund), Cantino (East 

 Lansing, Mich.), Chaylakhyan (Moscow), Eagle (Bethesda, Md.), Edds (Provindence, R.L), 

 Falcone (Naples), Fowden (London), Gale (Cambridge), Herrmann (Denver, Colo.), Hoag- 

 land (Boston, Mass.), Lang (Los Angeles, Calif.), Lovtrup (Gdteborg), Lucy (Cambridge), Mel- 

 chers (Tiibingen), Morel (Versailles), Nickerson (New Brunswick, N.J.), Nitch (Gif-sur- 

 Yvette), Paul (Glasgow), Pollard (Ithaca, N.Y.), Rutter (Urbana, 111), Ranzi (Milan), 

 Shantz (Ithaca, N.Y.), Steward (Ithaca, N.Y.), Street (Swansea), Ten Gate (Amsterdam), 

 Ward (Philadelphia, Pa.), Webb (Cambridge), Zamenhof (New York). 



"MICRORADIOGRAFIA OSSEA. 

 sviluppo e accrescimento dello 



scheletro umano; 

 cranio e colonna vertebrale" 

 1955 

 by G. Prevedi and M. Marcato 

 144 pp., 70 figs. 



L. Cappelli 



Bologna 



Price: 3000 L. 



Although this monograph is already five years old, a review is still considered 

 appropriate, because the book appears to be the first of a series which 

 will cover the whole of the human fetal skeleton. The present book 

 deals only with the skull and the vertebral column. It is in the form of an atlas 

 consisting of 70 high-quality X-ray photomicrographs, which together constitute 



