46. TERATOGENESIS 



1964 



Symposion der Schweizerischen Schwabe 6 Co. 

 Akademie der Medizinischen Basel 



Wissenschaften Price: S.Fr. 30. — 

 621 pp., 119 figs., 24 tbs. 



This Symposium was held in Basel in October 1963 under the responsibility 

 of the Swiss Academy of Medical Science. The report constitutes a special 

 issue of the Bulletin of the above Academy, but is available separately. 



The Symposium had 46 participants, half of them coming from European 

 countries other than Switzerland. Five of the Swiss participants had also 

 attended the Symposium held in Liestal earlier in the same year (see review 

 no. 40 above), but only one of these delivered a paper on both occasions. 

 Consequently there is hardly any overlap between the two symposium reports 

 as regards authors. 



The report contains 16 papers concerned almost exclusively with mammalian 

 and human teratogenesis. Eight papers are in German, six in French, and two 

 in English. All papers have summaries in German, French, English, and Italian. 

 About half of the papers are experimental, the other half clinical in nature. 

 Some of the papers are followed by discussions. The book is concluded by a 

 veAatim report of a round table discussion, which occupies 22 pages of small 

 print. 



The book is adequately illustrated, mostly with photographs. There is a list 

 of participants, but no alphabetical index. 



Contributors: Baerlocher (Basel), Buchs (Basel), Buchner (Freiburg/Br.), Constam (Zurich), 

 Courrier (Paris), Degenhardt (Frankfurt/Main), Edwards (Birmingham), Ford (Harwell), 

 Gigon (Basel), Giroud (Paris), Goerttler (Heidelberg), Hottinger (Basel), Jacottet (Lausanne), 

 Jost (Paris), Just (Basel), Justin-Besan^on (Paris), Kallen (Malmo), Knorr (Tubingen), Koller 

 (Basel). Krone (Bamberg), Kullander (Malmo), Lefebvre (Paris), Loffler (Basel), Loffler 

 (Ziirich), Loosli (Fiillinsdorf) , Lorenz (Koln-Miilheim), Martin (Geneve), Mayer (Homburg/ 

 Saar), Mercier-Parot (Paris), Millen (Cambridge), von Nemes-Balogh (Budapest), Pequignot 

 (Paris), Reichstein (Basel), Richter (Bern), Rickenbacher (Ziirich) , Rossi (Bern),Roux (Paris), 

 Svartz (Stockholm), Theiss (Basel), Tondury (Ziirich), Tuchmann-Ehiplessis (Paris), de 

 Watteville (Geneve), Wenner (Liestal), Werthemann (Basel), Wiedemann (Kiel), Wolf- 

 Heidegger (Basel). 



47. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY 



1964 



285 pp., 132 figs., 41 tbs. Elsevier Publishing Cy. 



Editor: M. Sela Amsterdam - London - New York 



Price: 80 s. 



This book is a report of a Symposium held in June 1963 in Rehovoth, Israel, 

 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ullman Institute of Life Sciences. 

 This Institute comprises research units in various fields of subcellular and 

 molecular biology, and the Symposium papers are likewise united by their 

 emphasis on molecular biology. Of the 28 contributors to the Symposium 13 

 came from the U.S.A., 7 from Israel, and 8 from various European countries. 



The 21 papers are arranged in six groups as follows: 1) New perspectives 

 in protein research (6 papers); 2) Structure and function of nucleic acids (4 



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