A special feature of the book is the extensive historical introductory chapter, 

 which goes back to the third century B.C. 



Beside the illustrations, the book contains many tables and graphs. The 

 bibliography serves at the same time as an author index. A subject index is 

 not included. 



"ATLAS OF AVIAN HEMATOLOGY" 

 1961 

 by A. M. Lucas and C. Jamroz U.S. Govmnt. Printing Office 



(Agriculture Monograph no. 25) Washington, D.C. 



277 pp., 48 coloured pis. Price: $ 4.00 



(413 figs.) 



This atlas consists of a very large number of original coloured pictures of 

 fixed and stained blood cells, accompanied by an extensive text. The atlas 

 covers not only the adult chick blood, but also the blood of the embryo from 

 2 days onwards. It also includes the developmental stages of the blood cells 

 found in the blood-forming organs of both the adult and the embryo. Further- 

 more, the images and the text are concerned not only with typical cell types, 

 but also with atypical and abnormal cells. More limited studies on 33 other 

 avian species are added. 



The book contains extensive discussions on terminology and on hemato- 

 logical techniques as applied to birds. There is a large bibliography and a very 

 detailed subject index. 



"GLANDS OF INTERNAL SECRETION IN THE EMBRYONIC 

 DEVELOPMENT OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS" 



1959 

 by M. S. Mitskevich Israel Program for Scientific 



314 pp., 63 figs. Translations 



(paper-bound) Jerusalem 



Price: $9.00 



This is a translation of a book originally published in Russian in 1957. 

 The author works in the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Animal Morphology of 

 the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow. 



The present book was reproduced by a photographical technique from a 

 typewritten copy. It contains reproductions of the original figures. 



The book is primarily based on original investigations of the author and 

 his co-workers, and of numerous other Russian investigators. These are supple- 

 mented by data of a considerable number of non-Russian authors. The author's 

 main pre-occupation is with the "neuralistic" views of Pavlov, according to 

 which the central nervous system is the main "integrator" of the organism, and 

 correlates the activities of all endocrine organs from the first beginning of their 

 functional activity. 



The subjects treated in the chapters following the two introductory ones are: 

 the thyroid gland, the hypophysis, thyroid-pituitary interrelations, the pancreas, 

 neural regulation of endocrine activity, influence of maternal hormones in birds, 

 and endocrine interrelations between mother and foetus. 



The bibliography covers 41 pages (17 for Russian authors, 24 for non- 

 Russian references). A subject index is lacking. 



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