Each chapter is concluded by a brief selected bibliography. The illustrations 

 are good on the whole, although some of the highly diagrammatic drawings 

 and schemes are not particularly successful. 



19 GENERAL EMBRYOLOGY 



1966 

 by B. P. Tokin Leningrad University 



456 pp., 185 figs.. 5 tbs. 



This book is written in Russian and will therefore not be reviewed ex- 

 tensively. The author is head of the Department of Embryology of Leningrad 

 University, and has earlier written a book on regeneration and somatic em- 

 bryogenesis (1959). 



The book is remarkably comprehensive. Apart from the usual subject matter 

 to be found in a student textbook of embryology, it contains chapters on such 

 subjects as nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions in development, immuno-embryol- 

 ogy, the theory of physiological gradients, field theories, metamorphosis, 

 somatic embryogenesis, regeneration, and ontogenesis and evolution. The author 

 draws freely upon the work of non-Russian scientists. 



The book is profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs, and portraits. 

 It has a brief bibliography of books and monographs, and author and subject 

 indexes. 



20 MORPHOGENESIS OF THE VERTEBRATES 



2nd edit., 1967 

 by Th. W. Torrey John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 



456 pp., 339 figs., 4 tbs. New York, London, Sydney 



Price: 83 s. 



The first edition of this book appeared in 1962. At that time it was the first 

 textbook to integrate into a single treatment both the embryology and the 

 comparative anatomy of the vertebrates. The book has now been put to the test 

 of classroom use and as a result of the comments received the entire text has 

 been critically scrutinized, resulting in much rewriting, expansion, and up- 

 dating. The rationale and organization, however, have remained unchanged. 



The book is now produced in a larger format, and the text is printed in two 

 columns. The illustrations have also been re-examined and many have been 

 modified or replaced. The selected reference lists concluding the chapters have 

 been expanded wherever necessary. The production of the book is excellent. 



21 ADVANCES IN MORPHOGENESIS 



Vol. 5, 1966 

 Vol. 6, 1967 



Editors: M. Abercrombie and J. Brachet Academic Press 



Vol. 5: 348 pp., 97 figs., 3 tbs. New York - London 



Vol. 6: 340 pp.. 121 figs., 10 tbs. Price: vol. 5: $ 14.—, 112 s. 



vol. 6: $ 15.—, 120 s. 



Contents vol. 5: Feathers and patterns (J. Cohen); The initiation of organized development 

 in plants (J. G. Torrey); The stimulus to hypertrophic growth (B. Poole); The ultrastructure 

 of the cytoplasm of the developing amphibian egg (S. Wischnitzer) ; Embryonic determination 

 of neural connections (G. Szekely); The vitelline membrane and cortical particles in sea urchin 

 eggs and their function in maturation and fertilization (J. Runnstrom) 



Contents vol. 6: The biology of teratomas (L. C. Stevens); The development of patterns in 

 the integument of insects (M. Locke); The control of embryonic hemoglobin synthesis (F. H. 

 Wilt); Heteroblastic development in vascular plants (A. Allsopp); The ultrastructure of the 

 nucleus of the developing amphibian egg {S. Wischnitzer); Experimental alterations of the 

 developmental cytogenetic mechanisms in mulberry silkworms: artificial parthenogenesis, po- 

 lyploidy, gynogenesis, and androgenesis (B. L. Astaurov); Developments in sexual organ- 

 ogenesis (L. Gallien) 



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