Of course a book of this size cannot present more than the merest outline. Still, it will 

 form stimulating collateral reading alongside the existing, more elaborate but more con- 

 ventional text books. 



"NOMINA ANATOMICA" 



second edition, 1961 



100 pp. Excerpta Medica Foundation 



(paper-bound) Amsterdam-London-Milan-New Y >rk 



The first edition of the official Nomina Anatomica, prepared by the Inter- 

 national Anatomical Nomenclature Committee, was published for private circu- 

 lation in Paris in 1955. It is now generally referred to as the P.N. A. The 

 present list is a revision of the P.N. A., approved by the Seventh International 

 Congress of Anatomists, held in New York in 1960. The additions and changes 

 amount to less than 4 % of the total number of terms in the P.N. A. The 

 editors are of the opinion "that no major changes will be required for many 

 years, since international agreement has now been reached on all existing 

 divergences in terminology". 



In the Introduction, the I.A.N.C. announces the establishment of Sub-Committees on 

 Histology and Embryology. Their respective Honorary Secretaries are: Prof. M. Niizima, 

 Tokyo, and Prof. H. W. Mossman, Madison, Wisconsin. 



"ADVANCES IN MORPHOGENESIS" 

 Vol. I, 1961 



Editors: M. Abercrombie and J. Brachet Academic Press Inc. 



445 pp., 161 figs. New York and London 



Price: $ 12.50 



This is the first volume of a new serial publication in book form, which 

 promises to be of considerable interest to the readers of the "General Embry- 

 ological Information Service". In their preface the editors state that the series 

 is intended to help in linking up the various branches of biology that deal with 

 development. The latter is defined very broadly as "the new formation or the 

 remodelling of living material". The series will contain review papers which 

 will have a broad range of style and content. Some of them will be centred 

 mainly around the own work of the author, while others will be broader in 

 scope. 



The present volume contains nine papers, which range in size from about 30 to 

 about 60 pages. Each is preceded by a table of contents and followed by a list 

 of references. The titles of the papers are as follows: ( 1 ) A chemical approach 

 to the problem of the organizer (T. Yamada); (2) The embryology of Ascid- 

 ians (G. Reverberi); (3) Regeneration of vertebrate appendages (R. J. Goss); 

 (4) Action of morphostatic substances and the role of proteases in regenerating 

 tissues and in tumour cells (F. E. Lehmann); (5) Determining factors in cell 

 growth: some implications for morphogenesis in plants (F. C. Steward and 

 H. Y. Mohan Ram); (6) The differentiation of vertebrate pigment cells (Ch. 

 E. Wilde, Jr.); Limb morphogenesis (E. Zwilling); (8) Morphogenesis of the 

 vertebrate eye (G. V. Lopashov and O. G. Stroeva); (9) Structural and 

 dynamic aspects of the development of the Teleostean egg (Ch. Devillers). 



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