monkey for the solution of problems of fetal undernutrition in man. It reports on a large 

 number of correlated studies of fetal "chemical anatomy", both in the normal primate 

 fetus and under conditions of hormonal and nutritional imbalance. 



Most of the attention is focussed on the brain, but many other organs and tissues as 

 well as the growth process per se are also considered. The book's concluding section deals 

 with postnatal growth in the human and the roles of hormones and nutrition in it. One 

 appendix gives methodological details and another lists data on normal fetal and postnatal 

 development in the rhesus monkey. 



The book is produced in photo-offset and contains a large amount of tabular and 

 graphic information. 



117. 



V. J. A. NOVAK. 1975. INSECT HORMONES 



Chapman & Hall, London. XXII, 600 pp., 73 figs., 37 pis., Stabs., subject, taxonomic 

 and author indexes. £ 16.80 



Contents: 1 . Introduction; 2. Methods and techniques in insect hormone research; 

 3. The metamorphosis hormones; 4. Entocones, natural and synthetic substances with 

 insect hormone activity; 5. Hormones and morphogenesis; 6. Hormones and diapause; 

 7. The neurohormones; 8. The protohormones; 9. Incompletely known substances 

 with allegedly hormonal characteristics; 10. The exohormones; 11. Effects of insect 

 hormones on other animal groups and vice versa; 12. The theoretical and practical 

 significance of insect hormones 



This is the second English edition of a book that, since its first publication in German 

 in 1959, has found a place of its own alongside other similar works. We will therefore 

 restrict ourselves to mentioning the main changes from the previous edition (1966). A 

 major feature of the book still is that it devotes much attention to work by investigators 

 in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern-European countries that is less well known to readers 

 in the West. 



There is a new chapter of 40 pages (4) on substances with MH and JH activity, the 

 major new subject since the previous edition. The original chapter on the metamorphosis 

 hormones was split up into two (3 and 5, together 66 pp.). Naturally, the author draws 

 extensively on work and ideas of himself and his associates; this holds particularly for the 

 sections on the gradient-factor hypothesis and its general developmental implications in 

 ch.5. However, his own conclusions are always kept clearly separate from those of others. 



Because of the tremendous increase in the number of publications, the references to 

 articles are restricted to those published after 1964, but this Ust was made as complete as 

 possible and consists of over 2.000 titles. The book is illustrated with excellent line 

 drawings and more than 40 good photographs. 



Symposium reports 



118. 



E. L. COOPER, preface. 1975. DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY 



Amer. Soc. of Zoologists, Utica, N.Y. American Zoologist 15, 1. 213 pp., Ill figs., 



35 tabs. $ 6.50 (paper) 



Contributors: Ashman, Auerbach, Boraker, Bryant, Cohen, Cooper, Decker, Duques- 

 noy, Goldstine, Horton, Kindred, Linna, Manning, Moticka, Philhps-Quagliata, Riviere, 

 Ruben, Schapiro, Turpen, Wright 



This symposium was held in Houston, Tex. in December 1973 and covered both 

 phylogenetic and ontogenetic aspects of immunity. All of the 21 contributions are 

 summaries of recent original research by well-known individuals and groups (three from 

 outside the U.S.A.). Three deal with invertebrates, seven with amphibians and other lower 

 vertebrates, two specifically with cyclostomes, three with birds and marsupials, and the 



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