in human dentition, while Sof aer ' s study of developmental stability in the 

 mouse vertebral column provides interesting material for comparison with 

 tooth rows. Luke et at. discuss the problem of ageing human fetuses on the 

 basis of their tooth germs. 



The book is well produced and profusely illustrated. 



71. 



D.A.EDE, J.R.HINCHLIFFE and M. BALLS, eds. 1977, VERTEBRATE LIMB AND SOMITE 



MORPHOGENESIS 



Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, etc. Symp. Brit. Soc. for Devi. Biol. 3. 



X,498 pp., 148 figs., 41 tabs., combined taxonomic and subject index. £ 20.00 



Contvibutors : Amprino, Bellairs, Bryant, Cairns, Caplan, Chevallier, Cooke, 

 Ede, Fallon, Flint, Goel, Goetinck, Hinchliffe, Kelley, Kieny, Lewis, 

 MacCabe, Menkes, Newman, Pautou, Raynaud, Saunders, Searls, Shellswell, 

 Simpson, Stocum, Summerbell, Wilby, Williams 



The international band of contributors to this symposium provide a repre- 

 sentative cross-section of the growing world-wide community of scientists 

 working in these fields. Of the 29 papers, one is a review and several are 

 reports of unpublished work. The others are concise but well-written mixtures 

 of recent published work and new findings, in varying proportions. 



Particularly in the area of avian limb morphogenesis there is much overlap 

 and little or no "interaction" between the papers: each contributor brings 

 his own slightly different point of view, and it is therefore a pity that the 

 discussions were not recorded: they must have been fascinating and enlighten- 

 ing. Nevertheless, there is in the papers a wealth of material that was very 

 new at the time of writing; much of this represents important advances which 

 show that several ideas which were s© far generally accepted are no longer 

 true. 



Sixteen papers deal with limb morphogenesis in birds, five with mammalian 

 and reptilian limbs, three with amphibian limb regeneration, and five with 

 somitogenesis in amniotes and amphibians. The book is illustrated with good 

 drawings and photographs. 



72. 



O.C.JAFFEE, ed. 1970. CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONGENITAL 



HEART DISEASE 



Univ. of Dayton Press, Dayton, Ohio. 168 pp., 97 figs., 8 tabs., subject in- 

 dex. 



This symposium report was reviewed in Gen. Embryol. Inf. Serv. 14, 1971. 

 The editor tells us that he still has a stock and that he is willing to send 

 a copy free of charge to those who might want it. Address: Biol. Dept. , Univ. 

 of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA 



73. 



M.SEIJI and I.A.BERNSTEIN, eds. 1977. BIOCHEMISTRY OF CUTANEOUS EPIDERMAL 



DIFFERENTIATION 



Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, etc.; Univ. of Tokyo Press, Tokyo. XII, 514 pp., 



276 figs., 76 tabs., subject index. $ 65.00, £ 39.50 



This symposium was held in Sendai, Japan in June 1976 and brought together 

 workers from all laboratories in Japan and the U.S.A. engaged in research in 

 this area. The papers are mixtures of review and research material in vari- 

 ous proportions, and all but a few are followed by group discussions. They 

 deal almost exclusively with the epidermis in the strict sense, excluding 

 melanocytes and special epidermal differentiations (except hairs in 2 

 papers) but including wound healing (3 papers) and chalones (1 paper). Most 



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