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FOETAL AND NEONATAL IMMUNOLOGY. 1971. By J. B. SOLOMON 



North-Holland, Amsterdam; American Elsevier, New York. Frontiers of Biology, vol. 20. 396 



pp., 60 figs., 24 tabs., 8 pis., author and subject indexes. ISBN 7204 7120 6, 0444 10069 5. 



$ 20.00, 168 s., Hil. 72,— 



Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. The reticulo-endothelial system in foetal development, 3. 

 Lymphocytopoiesis — the natural development of immunocompetent cells in central and 

 peripheral lymphoid tissue, 4. The placental barrier, 5. Maternal antibody. I. Routes and 

 specificity of transmission, 6. Maternal antibody. II. Protective effects and immunological 

 hazards, 7. Natural immunity, 8. Immunological tolerance, 9. Ontogeny of immunoglobulin 

 synthesis, 10. Ontogeny of defined immunity in birds, 11. Ontogeny of defined immunity in 

 mammals, 12. Ontogeny of resistance to infection, 13. The unification of foetal and post- 

 natal immunology in mammals and birds by age-equivalence, 14. Conclusion. 



This thorough monograph brings together a vast amount of information on the development 

 of immune responses in mammals and birds. The unifying principle is the author's embryolo- 

 gical viewpoint, particularly his use of the concept of age-equivalence. He shows that the onset 

 of immunological function occurs at the same stage of morphological development and phy- 

 siological maturity in both large and small animals. 



The book is sufficiently characterized by the table of contents printed above. Age-equivalence 

 criteria are discussed in a separate chapter at the end of the book (ch. 13). 



The book is well produced and is illustrated with many graphs and a few photographs. All 

 chapters have their own extensive and up-to-date bibliographies; a notable feature is the 

 inclusion of rather much Eastern-European work. It is regrettable that the author index refers 

 only to the text, not to the bibliographies. 



Dissertations 

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^ACQUISITION DE LA COMPETENCE IMMUNOLOGIQUE CHEZ LES VERTEBRES, Etude chez 



la larve du Crapaud accoucheur Alytes obstetricans. 1970. By L. DU PASQUIER 



Ph.D. thesis, Bordeaux. 2 vols. 



vol. 1 text (mimeographed). 141 pp., 15 tabs. 



vol. 2 illustrations. 32 plates. 



Comprehensive study, made with a variety of modern techniques, of the development and 

 function of the immune system of the tadpole of Alytes. 



Developmental Genetics and Evolution (see also 8, 25, 72) 



Symposium, reports 



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GENETICS, SELECTION, AND HYBRIDIZATION OF FISHES (in Russian). 1969. Edited by B. I. 



CHERFAS 



Publishing House Nauka, Moscow. 310 pp., 33 figs., 59 tabs. 



This book is in Russian and contains the proceedings of a Symposium held in Leningrad 

 in March, 1967. We mention here only those papers which may be of interest to fish embryo- 

 logists: 1) Genetics of sex determination and some questions on hormone regulation of sex in 

 bony fishes (E. D. Vanyakina); 2) Experimental gynogenesis in carps (K. A. Golovinskaya); 3) On 

 the gonadal development and fertilization processes in Ctenopharyngodon idella (Val.) (Yu. P. 

 Bobrova); 4) Regulative correlation of sexes in fishes by feed-back mechanisms (V. A. 

 Geodakyan and V. I. Kosobutskij); 5) The hybrids of the pacific salmon Oncorhynchus , in par- 

 ticular the development and perspectives of usefulness (A. I. Smirnov); 6) Features of the 

 embryonic-larval development of hybrids of some pond carps (A. P. Makeeva); 7) On the 

 application of cytophysiological methods in the investigation of fish hybrids (M. A. Andriyas- 

 heva); 8) Production of progeny from intergeneric hybrids of the white sturgeon and sterlet 

 (I. A. Burtsev). Several papers contain good line drawings of embryonic and larval fish stages. 



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