germ cells. The musculature is not treated because the author is convinced that it is not 

 important in establishing homologies. 



The book is well produced and illustrated with numerous good line drawings. It has a 

 bibliography of 7 1 pages. 



Reference works 



99. 



R. RIEGER, A. MICHAELIS and M. M. GREEN. 1976. GLOSSARY OF GENETICS 



AND CYTOGENETICS, classical and molecular. 4th completely revised edit. 



Springer, Berlin, etc. 647 pp., 100 figs., 8 tabs. DM 36.00, $ 14.80, £ 8.35 (paper) 



It is a pleasure to announce a new edition of this well-known glossary. The tremendous 

 development of the field since 1968 is reflected in a size increase of some 150 pages. 

 About half of the text has been completely rewritten. One seldom turns to the book in 

 vain. After spending an hour with it the only serious omissions this embryologist (!) could 

 find were "germinal granules" and "sturt". 



DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY (incl. endocrinology, immunology, behaviour, etc.) 



(see also 27,29,41,44,47,50,51,70,72,75,80,91,93) 



Textbooks 



100 



M.-Th. CHALUMEAU. 1976. PRECIS DTMMUNOLOGIE 



Presses Univ., de France. Serie: Le Biologiste. 239 pp., 25 figs.^ 8 tabs. 



This is a well-written and well-organised introductory text. The reason why we review 

 it here is that it contains several sections which could be useful to students and others 

 interested in developmental immunology. 



Part One deals with the fundamentals of the immune reaction and its technical, bio- 

 chemical and cellular aspects. Part Two treats the immune reaction in the living organism. 

 It contains brief accounts of the development of immune competence and of the immune 

 system (including cellular differentiation). Part Three, entitled The immune reaction in 

 the laboratory, has a final section on the application of immunological techniques to the 

 problem of cellular differentiation. 



Although authors' names are frequently used in the text, the bibliography is restricted 

 to nine recent books and articles. The book is illustrated with good line drawings and dia- 

 grams and has a useful glossary. 



Monographs 



101. 



B. L. MIRKIN, ed. 1976. PERINATAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS 



Academic Press, New York, etc. XII, 455 pp., 38 figs., 31 tabs., subject index. $ 24.50 



Contents: 1. Placental transfer of pharmacologically active molecules (Mirkin and 

 Singh); 2. Drug biotransformation reactions in the placenta (Juchau); 3. Disposition of 

 drugs in the fetus (Waddell and Marlowe); 4. Pharmacologically induced modifications 

 of behavioral and neurochemical development (Thorburg and Moore); 5. Chnical im- 

 plications of perinatal pharmacology (Yaffe and Stern) 



This book was written by an all-American team of experts. It consists of five well-or- 

 ganised reviews which discuss critically and in depth the main areas that are currently 

 under active investigation in this field. Areas where the amount of data was considered in- 



232 



