gradually developed into a text suitable for university teaching. The present 

 edition is much longer than the 3rd and has many more illustrations, part of 

 them using colour for greater clarity. 



The contents have been rearranged to form two major parts, the first of 

 which has been particularly expanded for this edition: General embryology 

 (including reproduction, early development, placentation and teratology) , 

 and Specific embryology (special organogenesis) . New additions are a brief 

 historical chapter and a glossary of Latin and Greek terms with their plural 

 forms and genders. 



Symposium reports 



20. 



F.NAFTOLIN, ed . 1978. ABNORMAL FETAL GROWTH: BIOLOGICAL BASES AND CONSEQUENCES 

 Verlag Chemie, Weinheim. Dahlem Konferenzen: Life Sciences Research Report 10. 

 290 pp., 16 figs., 15 tabs., subject index & index to contributors. DM 52.00 

 (paper) 



Contents: I. Definition, epidemiology, identification of abnormal fetal 

 growth (background papers by Ounsted, Robinson), II. Early development 

 (Gropp, Bernfield, Hall) , III. Fetal-placental growth-A (Alexander, 

 Greengard, Hill), IV. Fetal-placental growth-B (Meschia, Novy, Benirschke) 



The Dahlem Konferenzen are meetings without formal lectures. A number of 

 background reviews are circulated in advance and discussed at the meeting. 

 The published report contains the background papers and Group Reports drawn 

 up by a rapporteur. 



The present meeting was held in Berlin in February 1978. It brought to- 

 gether an international group of 40 embryologists , cell biologists, perina- 

 tologists and others, which made for unique interdisciplinary interaction. 

 The section of most immediate interest to mammalian embryologists is the 

 second one, which covers 5 3 pages. Here the participants in the group dis- 

 cussions were Beier, Bernfield, Caplan, Friesen, Gardner, Gropp, Habedank , 

 Lindner, Neubert, Sara, Skalko and Solomon, with Nathanielsz as rapporteur. 

 The 9-page Group Report has its own list of 30 references. 



REPRODUCTION, SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT, GAMETOGENESIS , FERTILISATION (see also 5, 



18,41,45) 



Symposium reports 



21. 



CIBA - Symposium. 1979. MATERNAL RECOGNITION OF PREGNANCY 



Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, etc. Ciba Foundation Symposium 64 (new series). 



X,425 pp., 108 figs., 33 tabs., subject index, index to contributors. 



Dfl. 104.00, $ 50.75 



Contributors: Aitken, Allen, Beer, Beier, Bell, Billingham, Burton, 

 Cerini, Chavez, Gumming, Enders, Findley, Flint, Fujino, Gadsby, R.Gay, 

 S.Gay, Heap, Hearn, Maule Walker, Mootz, Poyser , Rizzino, Ross, Saunders, 

 Schlafke, Sellens, Shalgi, Sheers, Sherman, Short, Staples, Tyndale- 

 Biscoe, Van Blerkom, Yoshinaga 



This symposium was held in May 1978 and, as usual with this series, is a 

 mine of recent information, not least because of the extensive group dis- 

 cussions, complete with references. There are also five general discussions 

 on specific topics at the end of the book. The participants came from the 

 USA, the UK, Australia and various Western European countries. The 15 con- 

 tributions are up-to-date progress reports and reviews which together cover 

 almost all conceivable aspects of the problem. Much attention goes to delayed 



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