This book is the laboratory manual for the undergraduate Developmental 

 Biology course taught in the Biological Science Department at Purdue University, 

 Lafayette, Indiana. As will be apparent from the table of contents above, in this 

 course the areas of investigation are not restricted to one kingdom or even one 

 class, but cover a wide range of organisms. Much of the time available in the 

 course is devoted to carefully chosen experiments on living material, some of 

 which are usually reserved for advanced courses. 



Each chapter has a brief introduction providing some background and orienta- 

 tion. Apart from many specific questions interspersed throughout the text, most 

 chapters have a series of general questions to be answereld by the student on 

 the basis of the outcome of his experiments and of his own thinking; all chapters 

 are concluded by reference lists. 



Blank "data summaries" are provided for many of the exercises. Simple line 

 drawings and good photographs help the student to see what he should see, and 

 to do what he is asked to do. An appendix assists in the advance preparation of 

 the exercises by giving procedures for procuring and preparing materials, and 

 by stating sources for the more unusual materials. 



Although the effectiveness of the manual can only be judged after actual use 

 during a course, it is certainly most useful also for those who are planning 

 integrated developmental biology courses of this type. 



18 INTRA-UTERINE DEVELOPMENT 



1968 



By A. C. Barnes Lea & Febiger 



543 pp., 126 figs., 41 tbs. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Price: $ 18.50 



Contributors: Asper (Baltimore, Md.), Baramki (Baltimore, Md.), Barnes (Baltimore, Md.), 

 Bueding (Baltimore, Md.), Burnett (Baltimore, Md.), Colucci (Madison, Wis.), Cushner (Balti- 

 more, Md.), Deren (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Goldblatt (Rochester, N.Y.), Hellegers (Baltimore, Md.), 

 Holzman (Baltimore, Md.), Jarabak (Baltimore, Md.), Johnson (Baltimore, Md.), G. S. Jones 

 (Baltimore, Md.), H. W. Jones ( (Baltimore, Md.), Kumar (Baltimore, Md.), Liss (Boston, Mass.), 

 Long (Atlanta, Ga.), Martin (Augusta, Ga.), Montague (Baltimore, Md.), Rafferty (Baltimore, 

 Md.), Rasmussen (Salt Lake City, Utah), Schruefer (Baltimore, Md.), Seeds (Baltimore, Md.), 

 Sever (Bethseda, Md.), Walker (Baltimore, Md.). 



This collaborative treatise, written by 26 conributors, all of them American, and 

 most of them obstetricians, is intended mainly for the use of practising doctors. 

 It brings together a host of data from widely scattered sources. The treatment of 

 the many separate subjects is synoptic rather than exhaustive. In several of the 

 contributions there is little direct reference to the literature, and many of the 

 chapter bibliographies are selective. Nevertheless, the book may, in a limited way, 

 be useful to research workers as a quick reference source. 



The 27 chapters are arranged in three sections. The section on conception and 

 placentation contains 6 chapters. The section on growth and development ( 1 1 

 chapters) deals with chromosomal considerations, with a variety of organ 

 systems, and with the development of immune processes. The title of the last 

 section, "Chromosomal aberrations", is a misnomer, since its 10 chapters, besides 

 chromosomal aberrations as such, cover a variety of subjects such as the effects 

 of drugs, irradiation and various infections and diseases, as well as intra-uterine 

 diagnosis and the initiation of respiration. 



The book is well-illustrated and has a detailed subject index. 



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