Symposium reports 



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HEMIC CELLS IN VITRO. 1969. Edited by P. FARNES 



Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. In vitro, vol. 4. 192 pp., 60 figs., 20 tabs., subject index. $ 13.50 



Although this Symposium was held in 1968, several papers contain interesting information 

 which was very new at that time. We will mention only those papers thought to be of special 

 interest to our readers. 



N. L. Petrakis et al. deal with factors affecting the location of bone marrow in the mouse 

 embryo (chiefly the mesenchyme surrounding the bone rudiments). L. G. Lajtha discusses 

 kinetic models of hemopoietic stem cell populations. T. R. Bradley et al. deal with in vitro 

 colony formation by hemopoietic cells (granulocytic clones), while T. Rytomaa describes ex- 

 periments leading to the postulation of a specific granulocytic chalone and antichalone. E. 

 Goldwasser and M. Gross report on recent experiments on erythroid differentiation in vitro. 

 Finally, B. E. Barker reports on the blastogenesis and the cytological and ultrastructural dif- 

 ferentiation of lymphocytes in response to pokeweed mitogen (a phytohemagglutinin). 



The book is well produced and illustrated. It also contains 60 pages of abstracts of papers 

 presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Tissue Culture Association. 



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CONTROL OF ORGANELLE DEVELOPMENT. 1970. Edited by P. L. MILLER 



University Press, Cambridge. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, No. 24. 533 



pp., 156 figs., 33 pis., 64 tabs., author and subject index. ISBN 521 07855 5. $ 17.50, £ 7.— 



This volume embodies the 23 papers presented at the 24th S.E.B. Symposium held in London 

 in September 1969 The title does not convey the true scope of the Symposium, because apart 

 from the assembly and transmission of certain organelles many contributions deal with the 

 molecular biology (DNA, RNA, ribosomes, and protein synthesis) of organelles, particularly 

 mitochondria and plastids. In addition, some contributions are concerned with the cytoplasmic 

 control of nuclear function. The majority of the papers describe or review recent work on 

 unicellular organisms and plants; a few only report on work with amphibian and mammalian 

 material. 



It may be stated that the volume as a whole presents a comprehensive survey of the present 

 state of our knowledge in this field of investigation. We will specifically mention only a few 

 papers judged to be of particular interest to our readers. These are: a paper by I. B. Dawid 

 on the nature of mitochondrial RNA in Xenopus oocytes; one by H. G. Schweiger on RNA 

 synthesis in Acetabularia; one by N. de Terra on cytoplasmic control of macronuclear events in 

 Stentor; and one by J. B. Gurdon on autonomy vs. non-autonomy of nuclear activity in multi- 

 cellular organisms. 



The book's production and illustrations are up to the high standard usual in this series. 



Collections of papers 



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ORIGIN AND CONTINUITY OF CELL ORGANELLES. 1971. Edited by J. REINERT and H. 



URSPRUNG 



Springer, Berlin. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol. 2. 356 pp., 135 figs., 1 tab., 



ISBN 3 540 05239 9. ISBN 387 05239 9. DM 72.—, $ 20.80 



Contents: 1. Assembly, continuity, and exchanges in certain cytoplasmic membrane systems; 

 2. Origin and continuity of mitochondria; 3. Origin and continuity of plastids; 4. Origin and 

 continuity of Golgi apparatus; 5. Origin and continuity of cell vacuoles; 6. Origin and con- 

 tinuity of polar granules; 7. Centrioles; 8. Origin and continuity of microtubules; 9. Origin 

 and continuity of desmosomes; 10. On relationships between endosymbiosis and the origin 

 of plastids and mitochondria; 11. Cell organelles and the differentiation of somatic plant 

 cells 



The first volume of this new series (1968) was favourably received. The editors' preface to 

 the series was cited in full in Gen. Embryol. Inf. Serv. 13, 1969. The publication of the present 

 volume was delayed by problems of "author synchronization". Of the 17 specialist authors 12 

 are from the USA, two each from Great Britain and Western Germany, and one from France. 



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