cal. Chapter 5 is by far the longest (over 200 pp.) and has an enormous reference hst. All 

 chapters are up to date till 1971 or '72 except the last, which goes no further than 1969. 

 Most chapters are profusely illustrated. The reproduction of photographs and electron 

 micrographs is fair to good. 



Monographs 



46. 



A. BOLOGNARI. 1974. RICERCHE SUL NUCLEOLO, LA VITELLOGENESI, L'APPA- 



RATO DEL GOLGI E LA CELLULA DEI TUMORI EFFETTUATE NELL' ISTITUTO 



DI ZOOLOGIA DELL'UNIVERSITA DI MESSINA DAL 1953 AL 1973 (Researches on 



the nucleolus, vitellogenesis, Golgi apparatus and the tumour cell, carried out at the 



Institute of Zoology of Messina University between 1953 and 1973) 



Univ. degli Studi, Messina. 156 pp. 



A summary in Italian and English of the cytological work of the author and his 

 associates carried out over a period of 20 years, largely on the oocytes of various 

 invertebrates. Separate chapters on the nucleolus (two functional phases), vitellogenesis 

 (possible role of ribosome aggregation; yolk "transformation"), the Golgi apparatus, and 

 the tumour cell (parallels with the oocyte). Close to 150 references, for the most part to 

 papers in Italian by the author and his former associates. 



47. 



J. C. CZYBA, J. COSNIER, C. GIROD and J. L. LAURENT. 1973. ONTOGENESE DE 



LA SEXUALITE HUMAINE; developpement des appareils genitaux et du comportement 



sexuel 



SIMEP, Villeurbanne. VI, 165 pp., 15 figs., 25 pis., subject index. Ffr. 99.10 (paper) 



This monograph deals in concise fashion with the whole of human sexual develop- 

 ment, from fertilization till the emergence of phenotypic and socio-culturally determined 

 differences in sexual behaviour. This is a complicated subject that could easily fill a fat 

 volume. Here the treatment is extremely condensed, which makes the book difficult to 

 read in places, particularly because much knowledge of various areas of science is 

 presupposed. The terminology used is not always unambiguous. On the other hand, the 

 most recent views at the time of writing are incorporated and the documentation is 

 extensive, so that the book is useful as a first introduction for advanced students and 

 beginning investigators. 



The book is illustrated largely with coloured diagrams. These are not always very 

 successful and the colours are painful to the eye. A general flaw of the book is the lack of 

 correlation between text and figures; the latter are therefore often difficult to understand 

 and the captions are insufficient to remedy this. The chapter bibliographies together 

 number 21 pages of small print. There is a useful tabular survey of the ontogenesis of 

 sexual characteristics. 



48. 



L. GALLIEN. 1973. BASES CYTOLOGIQUES ET GENETIQUES DE LA SEXUALITE 

 Gordon & Breach, Paris, etc. Cours et Documents de Biologie vol. 5. XVI,391 pp., 

 129 figs., 9 tabs., author and subject indexes. $ 35.50, £ 15,40 



Contents: I. Introduction; II. Les cellules germinales - lignee germinale-soma-germen; 

 III. Meiose et gametogenese; IV. La fecondation; V. Mecanismes generaux de la 

 determination du sexe; VI. Les chromosomes sexuels; VII. Demonstration des meca- 

 nismes de I'homo-heterogametie dans la determination du sexe; VIII. Intersexualite — 



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