fetal life as the product of physiological and clinical research. Most of them are up to date 

 until 1974 or '75. 



The book is well produced. It is illustrated almost entirely with graphs and diagrams. 

 The large majority of the literature cited is in English. 



42. 



I. R. PHILLIPS. 1 976. THE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE COMMON MARMOSET (CalUthrix 



jacchus) 



Springer, Berlin, etc. Advan. Anat. Embryol. Cell Biol. Vol. 52, 5. 47 pp., 22 figs., 14 tabs., 



subject index. DM 26.00 (paper), $ 10.70 



Brief description of a somewhat incomplete series of Streeter stages beginning with VII 

 and ending with XXI; discussion of timing of morphogenesis in comparison with other pri- 

 mates; good drawings and micrographs. 



Symposium reports 



43. 



F. T. PERKINS and P. N. O'DONOGHUE, eds. 1975. BREEDING SIMIANS FOR 



DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 



Laboratory Animals Ltd, London. Laboratory Animal Handbooks, vol. 6. II, 353 pp., 

 93 figs., 57 tabs., combined subject and taxonomic index. £ 12.00, $ 30.00 



This symposium was held in London in June 1974 and was attended by more than 100 

 specialists from many different countries. The significance of the published proceedings 

 will be obvious to all those working or planning to work with primates. There are 30-odd 

 papers interspersed with discussions. 



Rather than enumerating all the contributions we want to single out some topics that 

 are of specific importance to embryologists working with primate material: comparison 

 of embryonic and foetal development of man and rhesus monkey (29 pp. including dis- 

 cussion); chronology of development of embryo and placenta in Tupaia (3 pp.); deter- 

 mination of early pregnancy and stage of foetal development inMacaca (16 pp.); macaque 

 and marmoset as animal models for birth defects (1 1 pp.); comparison of developmental 

 stages in primates (12 pp.); and possibilities oixxsmgMacaca arctoidesmt&xditolo^y {^ pp.). 

 Most of the remaining contributions deal with the husbandry, breeding, reproduction and 

 diseases of monkeys. 



The book is well produced and illustrated. 



44. 



D. F. ROBERTS and A. M. THOMSON, eds. 1976. THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN FETAL 



GROWTH 



Taylor & Francis, London. Symposia Soc. for the Study of Human Biology, vol. 15. X, 

 309 pp., 70 figs., 47 tabs., author and subject indexes. £ 6.50 



This symposium was held in England in November 1 974 and all contributors but one 

 are English. The book is clearly of most immediate importance to obstetricians but some 

 contributions may be of interest to mammalian embryologists. Most papers are reviews of 

 greatly varying length; two are research reports. 



The 15 contributions are grouped as follows (we briefly indicate the subjects of more 

 general importance in parentheses); Techniques (2 papers); Growth in size and its postna- 

 tal implications (6, of which one on metrical growth and skeletal development and one on 

 vulnerable periods in brain and somatic growth); Growth in function (4, among which 

 endocrine function, biochemical development, immune competence); Factors affecting 

 growth (3, of which one on non-specific esterases). 



The book is well produced and adequately illustrated. 



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