(Swansea, Wales), }. Reinert (Berlin-Dahlem, Germany), and J. P. Nitsch 

 (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). 



The book contains 35 papers on the culture of cells and organs of plants 

 ranging from bryophytes to phanerogams, and, in addition, six lectures on 

 general aspects of tissue and organ culture. The majority of the papers deal 

 with the culture of reproductive organs and embryos of plants. Other papers 

 are concerned with such subjects as totipotency of cultured cells, regeneration, 

 and experimental control of morphogenesis. 



The book is well printed and adequately illustrated, and contains an author 

 index. 



Participants: Chopra (Delhi), Craigie (Swansea), Das (Calcutta), David (Poona), Gadgil 

 (Calcutta), Govila (New Delhi), Guha (Delhi), Iyer (New Delhi), Jagannathan (Poona), 

 Johri (Delhi), Jones (Swansea), Kaul (Lucknow), Konar (Delhi), Lai (Delhi), Mahabale 

 (Poona), Maheshwari (Delhi), Mascarenhas (Poona), Mitra (Lucknow), Mohan Ram 

 (Delhi), Narayanaswami (Trombay), Nitsch (Gif-sur-Yvette), Puri (Delhi), Ramakrishnan 

 (Baroda), Ranganathan (Punjab), Ranga Swami (Delhi), Rao (New Delhi), Rao (Singapore), 

 Reinert (Berlin-Dahlem), Roy (Calcutta), Sabharwal (Delhi), Sapre (Cuttack), Sastri 

 (Waltair), Sayagaver (Poona), Sehgal (Delhi), Sen (Almora), Singh (Saharanpur), Singh 

 Bajaj (Delhi), Sreenivasaya (Bangalore), Srimathi (Bangalore), Steward (Ithaca, N.Y.), 

 Street (Swansea), Thomas (Swansea), Thomas (Trivandrum), Tripathi (Lucknow), Vasil 

 (Delhi), Verma (Almora), Winter (Swansea). 



18. INTERSEXUALITY 



1963 



Editor: C. Overzier Academic Press 



563 pp., 192 figs., 39 tabs. London and New York 



Price: 168 s. 



This collaborative treatise (translated from the German), to which 18 

 authors have contributed, deals in the main with human intersexuality in its 

 cytological, genetical, endocrinological and clinical aspects. However, it 

 contains a number of chapters of more general significance. These present in 

 a concise but authoritative manner the present state of our knowledge con- 

 cerning the fundamental aspects of sex determination and intersexuality in 

 animals, and more particularly in mammals. The following chapters may be 

 mentioned: "The normal development of the gonads and the genital tract" 

 (mainly human), by W. Watzka (13 pp.); "Fundamental aspects of inter- 

 sexuality" (on a broad biological basis), by E. Witschi and J. M. Opitz 

 ( 1 7 pp. ) ; "Intersexuality in mammals", by W. Koch (12 pp. ) ; "The sex chrom- 

 atin", by M. L. Barr (21 pp.); "The nuclear sex of leucocytes", by W. M. 

 Davidson (12 pp.); "The cytogenetics of human intersexuality", by C. E. 

 Ford (29 pp.). 



These chapters should be of interest to embryologists and developmental 

 geneticists, and some of them seem particularly suited for a rapid orientation 

 in the field concerned. The extensive bibliographies given at the end of the 

 chapters are up-to-date, in so far as this is possible in such rapidly expanding 

 fields. In some instances addenda present the most recent advances. 



The book is very well printed and illustrated, and contains extensive 

 author and subject indexes. 



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