Symposium reports etc. 



33. Benirschke. K, (Edit.), 1967 — Comparative aspects of reproductive 

 failure 



34. Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( Edit. ) , 1 966 — Sympo- 

 sium on differentiation and growth of hemoglobin- and immunoglobin-syn- 

 thesizing cells 



35. Davis, B. D. and L. Warren (Edits.), 1967 — The specificity of cell 

 surfaces 



36. Goldstein, L. (Edit.), 1967 — The control of nuclear activity 



37. Hagen, E., W. Wechsler and P. Zilliken (Edits.), 1967 — Morpholog- 

 ical and biochemical aspects of cytodifferentiation 



38. Locke, M. (Edit.), 1966 — Major problems in developmental biology 



39. Mitskevich, M. S. (Edit.), 1966 — Development of endocrine functions 

 during fetal hfe 



40. PoLLi, E. E. and S. Ranzi (Edits.), 1964 — Acidi nucleici e loro funzione 

 biologica 



41. DE Reuck, A. V. S. andR. Porter (Edits.), 1967 — Development of the lung 



42. Vincent, W. S. and O. L. Miller Jr. (Edits.), 1966 — The nucleolus, its 

 structure and function 



43. Wolstenholme, G. E. W. and M. O'Connor (Edits.), 1965 — Preimplan- 

 tation stages of pregnancy 



Plant morphogenesis 



44. Cutter, E. G., A. Allsop, F. Cusick and L M. Sussex (Edits.), 1966 — 

 Trends in plant morphogenesis 



45. Davis, G. L., 1966 — Systematic embryology of the angiosperms 



I MARCELLO MALPIGHI AND THE EVOLUTION 



OF EMBRYOLOGY 

 1966 



by H. B. Adelmann Cornell Univ. Press 



5 vols., 2.475 pp., Ithaca. N.Y. 



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This truly monumental study is the product of long years of research. It is 

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The work is in four parts. Part one is an extensive biography of Malpighi, 

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 Part three is entitled "Malpighi's Contribution to Embryology" (over 100 

 pages), and includes an analysis of his two dissertations on the embryology 

 of the chick. Part four occupies over 1,300 pages; it starts with the first English 

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 of the 19th century. These deal successively with the various parts of the egg 

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