1960. It is of course a quite different book from that by Paul which is reviewed 

 under no. 8 above. The latter book is more of a manual, whereas the present 

 work is compilatory in nature. 



In the first volume, the methods of cell, tissue and organ culture are first 

 scrutinized, and an attempt is made to assess their respective merits and 

 applications (chapters 1-3). Secondly, a series of general topics on cell behav- 

 iour and metabolism in fairly uniform populations of relatively undifferentiated 

 cells are discussed (chapters 4-12). The problems of differentiation and the 

 interrelationships between tissues form the third group of topics (chapters 13- 

 15, by Grobstein, Moscona, and Wolff respectively). Finally, chapters 16 and 

 17 deal with the in vitro effects of hormones and vitamins. 



The second volume consists of a series of detailed accounts of the con- 

 tributions made by culture methods to the elucidation of the morphology, 

 physiology and developmental physiology of a representative selection of the 

 various special tissues of the body. Among the tissues treated are cartilage 

 and bone (Biggers), the tooth germ (Glasstone), the eye (Lucas), the otocyst 

 (Friedmann). the lung (Aydelotte), salivary glands, intestinal tract and pan- 

 creas (Borghese), the liver (Bang and Warwick), the endocrine glands 

 (Gaillard and Schaberg), and the germ cells and gonads (Wolff and Haffen). 



The third volume will be devoted more particularly to the applications of 

 tissue culture to other fields of investigation (pathology, pharmacology) and to 

 results obtained with invertebrate and plant tissues and cells. 



The authors selected by the editor for the various specialized chapters are 

 the ones one would have expected to be chosen; they are all leading authorities. 

 The fact that the compilation of the book took several years has of course 

 resulted in not all contributions being equally up-to-date. 



The books are well printed and well illustrated. They are concluded by 

 author and subject indexes. 



Contributors vol. 1: Abercrombie (London), Dingle (Cambridge), Eagle (New York, N.Y.), 

 Fell (Cambridge), Firket (Liege), Grobstein (Stanford, Calif.), Hsu (Houston, Texas), 

 Lasnitzki (Cambridge), Levintow (Bethesda, Md.), Lucy (Cambridge), Moscona (Chicago, 

 111.), Paul (Glasgow), Rinaldini (Cordoba), Seed (Cambridge), Trowell (Harwell), Waymouth 

 (Bar Harbor, Maine), Webb (Cambridge), Willmer (Cambridge), Wolff (Nogent-sur-Mame). 



Contributors vol. 2: Aydelotte (Cambridge); Bang (Baltimore, Md.), Biggers (Philadelphia), 

 Borghese (Roma), Cruickshank (Birmingham), Friedmarm (London), Gaillard (Leiden), 

 Glasstone (Cambridge), Haffen (Nogent-sur-Marne), Hancox (Liverpool), Jacoby (Cardiff), 

 Lajtha (Manchester). Lucas (Harwell), Murray (New York, N.Y.), Schaberg (Leiden), Sidman 

 (Boston, Mass.), Trowell (Harwell), Warwick (Baltimore, Md.), Wolff (Nogent-sur-Mame). 



33. TERATOLOGY 



Principles and Techniques 

 1965 



Editors: J. G. Wilson and J. Warkany University of Chicago Press 



287 pp., 39 figs., 84 pis., 47 tbs. Chicago — London 



Price: 41 s. 



This book is the outcome of the First Workshop in Teratology, sponsored 

 by the Commission on Drug Safety, and held in February 1964 at the Univer- 

 sity of Florida. Apart from the quality of the papers contributed, an out- 

 standing feature of the book is the fact that the demonstrations presented at 

 the Workshop are reproduced in full. Discussions are not recorded. 



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