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These are divided into 1 1 chapters, deahng with all levels of organization from 

 the sub-cellular (gene, chromosome, nucleus, cytoplasm) through the cellular 

 to the supra-cellular level, and rounded off by chapters on growth regulation 

 and cell division. 



Much of the illustrative material presented at the meeting is used to 

 illustrate the book. All chapters have a short bibliography. The book is 

 concluded by a speakers', a subject and an authors' index. 



Participants: Beale (Edinburgh), Beermann (Marburg/Lahn), Berenblum (Rehovoth), 

 Brachet (Auderghem), Brenner (Cambridge), Callan (St. Andrews), Dan (Tokyo), Dean 

 (Oxford), Gall (Minnesota), Gay (Long Island, N.Y.), Gustafson (Stockholm), Holtzer 

 (Pennsylvania), Lehmann (Bern), Mitchison (Edinburgh), Nieuwkoop (Utrecht), Pavan 

 (S. Paulo, Brazil), Plaut (Wisconsin), Pollock (London), Pontecorvo (Glasgow), Ris (Wis- 

 consin), Rusch (Wisconsin), Sjostrand (Stockholm), Toivonen (Helsinki), Waddington 

 (Edinburgh), Weiss {New York), Wilde (Pennsylvania), Zwilling (Washington, D.C.). 



"OXYGEN SUPPLY TO THE HUMAN FOETUS" 



1959 



Editors: J. Walker and A. C. Turnbull Blackwell Scientific 



(a C.I.O.M.S. Symposium) Publications Ltd. 



313 pp.. 132 figs. Oxford 



Price: 47 s. 6 d. 



This volume embodies the proceedings of a symposium organized by 

 C.LO.M.S. and the Macy Foundation at Princeton, N. J., in December 1957. 

 The subject-matter of the symposium appears to be mainly of interest to 

 obstetricians and medical physiologists, but those interested in fetal physiology 

 in general will find useful data in the papers dealing with oxygen transfer from 

 maternal to fetal blood, characteristics of the blood in fetal life, and vascular 

 anatomy of utero-placental and fetal circulation. 



Authors of papers: Bartels (Tiibingen), Kaplan (Cincinnati, Ohio), McClure Browne 

 (London). MacKinney (Chapel Hill, Carolina), Metcalfe (Boston, Mass.), Minkowski (Paris), 

 Prystowsky (Gainesville, Florida), Ramsey (Baltimore, Md.), Romney (New York), Rooth 

 (Lund), Scholander (La Golla, Calif.), Schulman (Chicago 14. 111.). Turnbull (Dundee). 

 Van Slyke (Upton, N.Y.), Walker (Dundee). 



"THE CONTROL OF GROWTH AND FORM, 



A study of the epidermal cell in an insect" 

 1959 

 by V. B. Wigglesworth Cornell University Press 



140 pp., 47 figs. Ithaca. N.Y. 



Price: $ 3.00 



The six essays forming this monograph are based on the "Messenger 

 Lectures" given by the author at Cornell University in 1958. 



The word "growth" in the title is not to be taken in a strict sense. It is 

 rather used as a synonym of "development" or "differentiation". The word 

 "form" in the title is equivalent to "morphogenesis". The author bases his work 

 on the assumption that physiological control of cellular differentiation and 

 morphogenesis acts through principles common to all animals. It has been his 



