105. 



L. I. GILBERT, ed. 1976. THE JUVENILE HORMONES 



Plenum, New York, etc, X, 572 pp., 141 figs., 116 tabs., subject index. $ 54.00 



I arts: I. Chemistry of the juvenile hormones and juvenile hormone analogs; II. Biosyn- 

 thesis and metabolism of juvenile hormone; III. Juvenile hormone effects at the cel- 

 lular level; IV. Juvenile hormone effects at the molecular level (binding and transport); 

 V. Effects of juvenile hormone at the molecular level (protein synthesis) 



This symposium was held in Lake Geneva, Wis. in November 1975. Although it is evi- 

 dently of major significance to insect endocrmologists, at least one third of it is of impor- 

 tance to developmental biologists. The participants came mainly from North America and 

 Western Europe. Most of the contributions are medium-length research reports; some 

 contain considerable review material; much of the material was unpublished at the time of 

 the symposium. Each of the five parts listed above is preceded by a most useful and inter- 

 esting summary of about half a dozen pages. 



Almost all of the eight papers in Part III are of direct interest to workers in insect 

 morphogenesis. Most focus on the interaction between JH and ecdysone. Among the con- 

 tributors we mention the following: Krishna Kumaran, Riddiford, Oberlander, Masner, 

 Lezzi, Willis, and Sehnal. A paper by Fristrom et al. in Part V deals with Drosophila 

 imaginal discs. 



The book is produced in good offset print and adequately illustrated. 



106. 



M. LiJSCHER, ed. 1976. PHASE AND CASTE DETERMINATION IN INSECTS, endo- 

 crine aspects 

 Pergamon, Oxford, etc. VIII, 130 pp., 34 figs., 24 tabs., £ 7.50, $ 15.00 



Contributors: Brian, de Wilde, Hales, Hrdy, Lenz, Liischer, Rembold, Roseler, Steel, 

 Velthuis 



The notion of an involvement of hormones (particularly JH) in phase and caste deter- 

 mination is a relatively recent one. This symposium, which was held in Washington DC 

 some time during 1976, was devoted to this notion. Most of the contributors came from 

 Western Europe (one each from Australia and Canada). The introductory paper was con- 

 tributed by Liischer. Nine of the ten main contributions are reviews in English of recent 

 work on various bees, ants, termites and aphids. The paper by Hrdy is only an abstract. 



In the interest of rapid publication the papers were reproduced direct from the type- 

 scripts and no attempt was made to reduce overlap. The book is adequately illustrated; it 

 has no indexes. 



METHODS (no entries, but see 58,96,102) 



HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES, etc. 



Monographs 



107. 



D. J. HARAWAY. 1976. CRYSTALS, FABRICS, AND FIELDS, metaphors of organi- 



cism in twentieth-century developmental biology 



Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, etc. X, 23 1 pp. , combined subject and name index. $ 1 5 .00 



The argument in this book hinges strongly on Thomas Kuhn's controversial ideas con- 

 cerning the evolution of science. The author regards the twentieth-century switch from 

 mechanicism to organicism as a paradigm change in the Kuhnian sense. This aspect of the 



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