Vannini (Bologna), Verwoerd (Amsterdam), Zafiratos (Athens), Ziller-Sengel (Nogent-sur- 

 Marne). 



40. MEDIKAMENTOSE PATHOGENESE FETALER 



MISSBILDUNGEN 

 1964 



Editors: Th. Koller and H. Erb S. Karger 



156 pp., 90 figs., 24 tbs. Basel — New York 



(paper-bound) Price: DM 25. — 



This Symposium was organized at the instigation of two pharmaceutical 

 firms, and held at Liestal, Switzerland, in March 1963. It had 27 participants 

 coming from Switserland and Germany. Among them were clinicians, phar- 

 macologists, biologists, and chemists. 



The report contains 13 papers and two group discussions. Both papers and 

 discussions are partly in German and partly in French. Six papers are mainly 

 experimental, and five strictly clinical in nature. One paper deals with the 

 responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry, and one with the legal aspects of 

 the problem under discussion. 



The book is adequately illustrated and concluded by an alphabetical index. 



See also review no. 46 below. 



Contributors: Gander (Lausanne), Kaufmann (Basel), Klein (Geneve), Kurz (Bern), 

 Loustalot (Basel), Massenbach (Liibeck), Metzger (Geneve), Mildenstein (Liibeck), Neuweiler 

 (Bern). Richter (Bern), Rickenbacher (Zurich), Da Rugna (Basel), Schultz (Altona), Sierts- 

 Roth (Altona), Taillard (Basel), Tondury (Zurich). 



41. THE CELL IN MITOSIS 



1963 



Editor: L. Levine Academic Press 



274 pp., 100 figs., 9 tbs. New York — London 



Price: $ 10.— 



This symposium report was not available earlier, but is considered suffic- 

 iently important to be briefly reviewed in this issue. 



The symposium was held in November 1961. Of the ten contributors nine 

 came from the U.S.A. and one from Canada. The book should be of great 

 interest to all those working on the mechanisms of cleavage in animal eggs. In 

 fact much of the material included refers to animal eggs. The techniques used 

 in the original work reported are mainly biochemistry and electron microscopy. 



One out of the ten papers must be specifically mentioned, because it tran- 

 scends the specific topic of the symposium and is of general interest to develop- 

 mental biologists. This is the paper by D. P. Bloch on histones, which includes 

 important sections on the possible role of nuclear histones in gene function, 

 and hence in cellular differentiation and somatic inheritance. 



All papers are followed by sometimes extensive discussions. The book, which 

 is well illustrated, is concluded by author and subject indexes. 



Contributors: Bloch (Austin, Texas). Buck (London, Canada), Cleveland (Athens, Ga.), 

 Elliott (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Levine (Detroit, Mich.), Rebhun (Woods Hole, Mass.), Scher- 

 baum (Los Angeles, Cal.), Szent-Gyorgyi (Woods Hole, Mass.), Wilson (East Lansing, 

 Mich.), Zimmerman (Brooklyn, N.Y.). 



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