"FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF NORMAL AND 



MALIGNANT GROWTH" 



1960 



Editor: W. W. Nowinski Elsevier Publ. Cy. 



1025 pp. 340 figs., 52 tabs. Amsterdam-London-New York-Princeton 



Price: H.fl. 110.— 



This large treatise is a collaborative effort of fourteen contributors. It is 

 concerned with growth in its broadest sense, and, besides growth sensu stricto, 

 extensively discusses such subject as germinal organization and embryonic 

 induction, the biochemistry of differentiation, regeneration and wound healing, 

 carcinogenesis, the metabolism of the cancer cell, mitotic poisoning by an- 

 timetabolites, and the aging process. 



Further chapters deal with the roles of nucleic acids and nitrogen metabolism 

 in growth, with growth in tissue culture, and with plant growth. 



The book opens with two introductory chapters, one on principles and 

 theory of growth, and one dealing with intermediary metabolism of building 

 blocks involved in growth. Associated with the latter chapter is a loose "map", 

 printed in five colours, and summarizing the metabolic pathways along which 

 chemical substances are utilized in cells. 



The text is supplemented with many figures. Each chapter is followed by 

 a large bibliography. The book is concluded by an extensive subject index. The 

 printing and binding of the book are very good. 



Contributors: Andrew (Indianapolis, Ind.), von Bertalanffy (Topeka, Kansas), Biesele (New 

 York), Brachet (Bruxelles), Clark (Storrs, Conn.), Dalcq (Bruxelles), Griffin (Houston, 

 Texas), Herrmann (Storrs, Conn.), Kirschbaum (Houston, Texas), Kit (Houston, Texas), 

 Needham (Oxford, England), Thimann (Cambridge, Mass.), Washburn Jr. (Galveston, 

 Texas), Waymouth (Bar Harbor, Maine) 



"MARSHALL'S PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION" 



3rd edition 

 Vol. I, part I and II, 1960 

 Editor: A. S. Parkes Longmans, Green & Co. 



part I: 708 pp., 129 figs. London etc. 



part II: 897 pp.. 244 figs. Price: part I: 150 s. 



part II: 240 s. 



This standard work hardly needs to be reviewed extensively here. The only 

 thing that calls for some comment is the complicated history of the third 

 edition. The second edition dates from 1922. Of the third edition, edited again 

 by A. S. Parkes, Volume II was the first volume to appear (1952). During the 

 preparation of Volume I it became necessary to divide this into two parts. 

 Part one appeared in 1956, and was reprinted in 1960. Part two appeared in 

 1960, but during its preparation it appeared necessary to split off the portion 

 dealing with the endocrinology of mammalian reproduction. This portion will 

 be published as Volume III in 1961. 



The division of the subject matter among the volumes is now as follows: 



Vol. I, part I: breeding season; morphology of the reproductive organs; 

 cyclic changes in the female. 



Vol. I, part II: spermatogenesis and sperm; copulation and insemination; 

 biology of spermatozoa; fertilization; reproductive endocrinology of lower 

 vertebrates and birds; exteroceptive factors. 



Vol. II: cleavage, early development and implantation; placentation; physio- 



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