Swanson, C. P., 1960. "The Cell," Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 

 N.J., 114 pp. 

 This book is one of "The Foundations of Modern Biology" series aimed 

 at presenting the essentials of the subject in a form suitable either for the 

 beginning student or the interested general reader. 



Walker, P. M. B. (Ed.), 1960. "New Approaches in Cell Biology," Academic 

 Press, New York, N.Y., 208 pp. 



This book is a collection of papers presented by participants in a sympo- 

 sium by the same title at the Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology 

 held at Imperial College. London, 1958. Of particular interest to the 

 beginning student are the discussions dealing with the origin of the nu- 

 cleus after mitotic cell division, lampbrush chromosomes, morphology of 

 developing systems at the submicroscopic level, and the biochemical ap- 

 proach to cell morphology. At a more specialized level are found discus- 

 sions of such fields of research as the cytochemistry of proteins and 

 nucleic acids, active transport, nuclear transfer, labeled antibodies, chemo- 

 therapy, interference microscopy, and flying-spot microscopy. 



White, M. J. D., 1950. "The Chromosomes," 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 

 Inc., New York, N.Y., i-ix, 134 pp. 



This little volume is an outline of chromosome behavior, mitosis and 

 meiosis, and evolution written by an outstanding authority in the field of 

 insect cytology. A brief but excellent glossary of cytological terms is 

 appended. 



White, M. J. D., 1954. "Animal Cytology and Evolution," Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Press, Cambridge, 454 pp. 



This volume is strictly animal, and also, as the author points out, strictly 

 chromosome cytology. The book is a particularly good source of detailed 

 examples of many atypical chromosome arrangements found in natural 

 populations. The reader is especially referred to the three chapters (Chaps. 

 15, 16, and 17) on the chromosomal basis of sex determination, both for 

 examples of various systems and a lesson in complexity. 



Wilson, E. B., 1925. "The Cell in Development and Heredity," 3rd ed.. The 

 Macmillan Co., New York, N.Y. 



This scholarly book is the classic of cytology and should be part of the 

 education of every cytologist. The 3rd edition represents the end of an 

 era of tremendous activity in cytology, and also the last time a single man 

 could write with authority on the whole field of cell studies. The book 

 itself, and its earlier editions (1896, 1900), did much to bring cytology 

 into genetic thought and to initiate the hybrid science of cytogenetics. The 

 three editions taken together represent a fine record of the development 

 of the science. In reading, one can see history in the making. Many of 

 the ideas, both morphological and physiological, are amazingly modern. 



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