announced in our journal. The publication is issued at regular intervals on 

 behalf of the "Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft", an consists of extensive 

 review articles on a large number of zoological topics. The reason for 

 devoting special attention to the present issue is that all but one of its chapters 

 deal with descriptive embryology and developmental physiology of various 

 groups of the animal kingdom (Protozoa, Myriapoda, Insecta, Porifera, 

 Mollusca, Arthropoda (postembryonic development), and Echinodermata). 

 The chapters concerned occupy about half of the volume. The remaining half 

 is occupied by a chapter on systematics and evolution. Every single author is 

 an authority in the special field concerned. Each chapter is adequately 

 illustrated and is followed by an extensive list of references, with special 

 emphasis on the most recent literature. 



Contributors: Br0ndsted (Copenhagen), Biickmann (Gottingen), Czihak (Tubingen), Gouin 

 (Strasbourg), Grell (Tubingen), Giinther (Berlin-Dahlem), Hess (Tubingen). 



10. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF INTRA-UTERINE DEVELOPMENT 



1959 

 Editor: N. L. Garmasheva State Publ. Office for Medical Literature 



323 pp., HI figs. (Medgiz) 



Leningrad Department 



Although this book is written in Russian and appeared already four years 

 ago, it was considered to be of sufficient interest to be announced briefly here. 

 It consists of 33 short contributions by various authors, which have been 

 grouped into four sections. These deal respectively with 1 ) adaptation be- 

 tween mother and fetus; 2) disturbances of intra-uterine development as a 

 result of pathological processes in the mother; 3) the pathogenesis of fetal and 

 neonatal asphyxia; and 4) clinical-pathological characteristics of the condition 

 of the fetus. 



The contributions have no separate bibliographies, but there is a general 

 bibliography at the end of the book. This covers 12 pages, 7 of which are 

 devoted to Russian titles, both recent and older. 



11. THE PATHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT, 



a study of inherited skeletal disorders in animals 

 1963 

 by H. Gruneberg Blackwell Sci. Publ. 



309 pp., 160 figs., 43 tabs., 9 pis. Oxford 



Price: 70s. 



The present book is written by one of the most distinguished authorities in 

 the field, who has actively contributed to it for many years. Its primary aim 

 is to survey the field of developmental pathology mainly on the basis of 

 examples of heritable developmental disorders of the skeleton in mammals. 

 The material presented is largely taken from the house mouse, but supplem- 

 ented by data on other mammals and the chicken. The secondary aim of the 

 book is to survey progress in the attempt to close the gap between the gene 

 and its morphological expression. 



The introductory chapter deals with the simple concepts required for the 

 understanding of the genetics of skeletal mutants. It discusses pleiotropism, 



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