55. 



E.LHEUREUX, 1978. RECHERCHES EXPERIMENTALES SUR LA MORPHOGENESE REGENE- 



RATRICE DU MEMBRE DE PLEURODELE (Amphibien Urodele) 



Ph.D. thesis, Lille. 214 pp., 75 figs., 9 pis., 34 tabs, (mimeographed) 



Very thorough study of which only a small part has been published; work 

 centres around the induction of supernumerary limbs by confrontation of 

 various tissues of different regional quality, both transversely and 

 proximo-distally; X-irradiation and nerve deviations as additional tools; 

 good photographs . 



Symposium reports 



56. 



T. LENDER and J. De PUYTORAC, organisers. 1976. LA REGENERATION 



Soc. Zool. de France, Paris. Bull. Soc. Zool . France 101, suppl.no. 3. 



IV, 118 pp., 18 figs., 2 tabs. 



Report of a conference held in September 1976; series of 15 short papers in 

 French, dealing with macromolecular synthesis (8 papers) and positional ef- 

 fects (5 papers) ; in both sections animals range from protozoans to amphib- 

 ians; line drawings. 



ORGANOGENESIS, HISTOGENESIS (incl. tissue and organ culture, histochemistry) 



(see also 37,45,46,82,84,86,87,92,101,106) 



Treatises 



57. 



W.A.HODSON, ed. 1977. DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUNG 



Dekker, New York, etc. Lung Biology in Health and Disease, vol.5. 



XXII, 646 pp., 220 figs., 16 tabs., author and subject indexes. $ 49.50, 



SFr.160.00 



This collaborative treatise by 23 North-American, five English and two 

 Swiss authors is a mine of information. The 17 chapters are authoritative and 

 well organised reviews which cover an extremely wide range of subjects in- 

 cluding structural, biochemical, pharmacological and physiological aspects. 

 The periods covered are embryonic and fetal life, the perinatal period, and 

 childhood. 



The authors have been encouraged to speculate wherever appropriate in order 

 to stimulate discussion. There is some overlap among chapters but this is in- 

 tentional. Relatively little attention is devoted to the beginnings of organ- 

 ogenesis and particularly its causal aspects. 



The chapters are arranged more or less arbitrarily in four sections as fol- 

 lows: I. Structural development (6 chs.), II. Biochemical development (5), 

 III. Physiological development (5), and IV. Abnormalities of the developing 

 lung ( 1 ) . 



The book is produced in good offset print and is well illustrated; the 

 light and electron micrographs are of very good quality. 



Monographs 



58. 



C.W.C0T^4AN, ed. 1978. NEURONAL PLASTICITY 



Raven, New York. XIV, 335 pp., 120 figs., 19 tabs., subject index. $ 32.50 



Contributors: Bernstein, Cotman, Goldberger, Goldman, Graf stein, Grazia- 

 dei, Merrill, Pettigrew, Purves, Reis, Roper, Rutledge, Tsukahara 



Although this book is hardly about development, it will be interesting 



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