47 LIFE BEFORE BIRTH 



1968 

 Editor: N. D. Compston The Royal Society of Medicine 



Proc. Roy. Soc. of Medicine, 61, London 



Nr. 11, Part 2 Price: 15 s.; $ 2.50 



68 pp.. 38 figs., 14 tbs. 

 (paper-bound) 



Contributors: E. C. Amoroso (ILondon). S. L. Barron (Newcastle upon Tyne), R. W. Beard 

 (London), C. A. Clarke (Liverpool), G. A. Currie (London), G. S. Dawes (Oxford), J. A. 

 Dudgeon (London), J. Ginsburg (London), R. M. Moor (Cambridge), R. Schwartz (Cleve- 

 land, Ohio) 



This is the report of a one-day Symposium held in London in May 1968. 

 The 10 papers included are concise reviews of selected aspects of foetal life, 

 and are followed by discussions. A few of the papers are of exclusively 

 medical interest. We will mention those that are of more fundamental scope. 



First of all, there is an interesting and well-illustrated account of the 

 evolution of viviparity by E. C. Amoroso. Furthermore there are two papers 

 on the immunology of pregnancy, two on foetal homeostasis, one on metabolic 

 fuels in the foetus, and two on breakdown of maternal protection (by infec- 

 tions and drugs respectively). 



The Symposium number is well produced and adequately illustrated. It has 

 no indexes. 



48 THE MAMMALIAN OVIDUCT 



Comparative Biology and Methodology 

 1969 

 Editors: E. S. E. Hafez and R. J. Blandau The Univ. of Chicago Press 



559 pp.. 205 figs., 55 tbs. Chicago - London 



Price: £ 12.7.0 



Contributors: Behrman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Benirschke (Hanover, N.H.), Bishop (Toledo. 

 Ohio), Black (Amherst. Mass.). Blandau (Seattle, Wash.). Bodemer (Seattle, Wash.). Boling 

 (McMinnville, Ore.), Brenner (Beaverton, Ore.), Brinster (Philadelphia, Pa.), Brundin (Stock- 

 holm), Chang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Dziuk (Urbana, 111.), Fox (Charlottesville. Va.), Frede- 

 ricsson (Stockholm), Glass (San Francisco, Calif.), Greenwald (Kansas City, Kansas), Hafez 

 (Pullman, Wash.), Hamner (Charlottesville, Va.), Herrmann (Seattle. Wash.). McLaren 

 (Edinburgh), Mastroianni (Philadelphia, Pa.), Nalbandov (Urbana, III), Nilsson (Uppsala). 

 Ortiz (Rio Piedras), Pickworth (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Price (Chicago, 111.). Reinius (Uppsala), 

 Rumery (Seattle, Wash.), Smith (Seatde, Wash.), Spadoni (Seattle, Wash.), Sugawara 

 (Sendai), Zaayer (Leiden) 



This book presents the results of an international Symposium held in Pull- 

 man, Wash, in July and August 1967. The book opens with an historical 

 introduction by C. W. Bodemer and closes with an epilogue by L. Mastroianni. 



The 22 papers presented are partly research papers and partly reviews. 

 They are grouped in five parts as follows: I. Development and structure 

 (4 papers); II. Physiology, Endocrinology, and Pharmacology (7); III. Bio- 

 chemistry (4); IV. Experimental Manipulation of Oviductal Eggs and Ovi- 

 duct (6); V. Qinical Aspects (1). Of particular significance to embryologists 

 are the papers in part IV on egg transfer in laboratory animals (Chang and 

 Pickworth), on egg transfer in cattle, sheep, and pigs (Dziuk), on mammalian 

 embryo culture (Brinster), and on mechanisms affecting embryo development 

 (McLaren). In part III there is a paper by Hafez and Sugawara on the bio- 

 chemistry of oviductal eggs. 



The book is beautifully produced and illustrated. It is concluded by exten- 

 sive author and subject indexes. The use of glossy paper throughout has led 

 to an unnecessarily high price. 



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