61. Lamming, G. E. and E. C. Amoroso (Edits.), 1967 — Reproduction in the 

 female mammal 



62. Shelesnyak, M. C. and G. J. Marcus (Edit.), 1969 — Ovum implantation 



63. Teir, H. and T. Rytomaa (Edits.), 1967 — Control of cellular growth in 

 adult organisms 



Plant morphogenesis 



64. BuTENKO, R. G., 1968 — Plant tissue culture and plant morphogenesis 



65. Steward, F. C., 1968 — Growth and organization in plants 



66. WiLKiNS, M. B. (Edit.), 1969 — The physiology of plant growth and 

 development 



1 THEODOR BOVERI 



Life and work of a great biologist, 1862 — 1915 

 1967 

 By F. Baltzer Univeristy of California Press 



(translated by Dorothea Rudnick) Berkeley - Los Angeles 



165 pp., 17 figs., 7 pis. Price: $ 6. — 



This is the English translation of a book published in German in 1962. 

 The very competent translator states in her translator's note that the main 

 reason why she undertook this work was "the strong feeling that the present 

 generation of American cell biologists has too little contact with the biological 

 groundwork on which the exciting modern advances stand, especially with 

 the German work and even more especially with that of Boveri." The final 

 draft of the translation was prepared together with Prof. Baltzer in Berne. 

 Some minor alterations were made from the German text. Otherwise, an 

 attempt was made to retain the timbre of the original. 



Those who already know the German book will agree that it is admirable, 

 being both warmly human and thoroughly scientific. The book is in two parts, 

 one describing the life and personality of Boveri, and the other discussing his 

 contributions to cytology, embryology, and the study of heredity. 



The book is very well produced and is illustrated with 6 photographic 

 portraits and 17 line drawings reproduced from Boveri's publications. It con- 

 tains a complete bibliography of Boveri's publications as well as a list of 

 publications issued from the Zoological Institute at Wiirzburg during his 

 Professorship (1893 — 1915). There is also a glossary and a combined author 

 and subject index. 



2 REGULATION AND CONTROL IN LIVING SYSTEMS 



1966 

 Editor: H. Kalmus John Wiley & Sons 



468 pp., 137 figs., 5 tbs. London - New York - Sidney 



Price: $ 13.75 



Contributors: Bell (London), Blest (London), Brown-Grant (Oxford), Free (Harpenden, 

 Herts.), Fry (London), Kalmus (London), Lewis (London), Newth (Glasgow), J. Maynard 

 Smith (Brighton), S. Maynard Smith (Brighton), Wilkie (London), Wilkins (London), Wynne- 

 Edwards (Aberdeen) 



The direct significance of this book for developmental biologists is limited, 

 because the field covered is extremely broad, encompassing such vastly dif- 

 ferent subjects as regulation and control in engineering, molecular regulation 

 in the cell, physiological control mechanisms, and regulation in animal societies 

 and populations, to mention but a few. 



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