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Contributors: Blackler (Geneve), Bonner (Princeton, N.J.), Brown (Edinburgh), Deuchar 

 (London), Elsdale (Edinburgh), Fischberg (Geneve), Haemmerling (Wilhelmshaven), Henshaw 

 (Swansea), Heslop-Harrison (Birmingham), Heyes (Edinburgh), Jones (Edinburgh), Leech 

 (Austin, Tex.), McLoughlin (Cambridge), Mollenhauer (Austin, Tex.), Northcote (Cambridge), 

 Raven (Utrecht), Setterfield (Ottawa, Canada), Srb (New York), Street (Swansea), Tamiya 

 (Tokyo), Torrey (Cambridge, Mass.), Waddington (Edinburgh), Whaley (Austin, Tex.), 

 Willmer (Cambridge), Wright (London). 



26. BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION AT THE CELLULAR 



AND SUPERCELLULAR LEVEL 

 1963 



Editor: R. J. C. Harris Academic Press 



261 pp., 66 figs., 17 tbs. London and New York 



Price: 60 s. 



This book embodies the proceedings of a symposium organised at Varenna 

 in 1962 by Prof. G. Montalenti on behalf of UNESCO. The symposium was 

 the natural successor to that organised by Prof. C. H. Waddington on behalf 

 of UNESCO in Edinburgh in 1957 ("Biological organisation, cellular and sub- 

 cellular", reviewed in the Supplement to the eighth issue, 1960, p. 38). However, 

 this time an almost entirely different group of participants was selected, so 

 that the two symposia complement each other well. 



The symposium had forty participants from eleven different countries. Six- 

 teen of them were speakers and the others took part in the discussions. No 

 particular emphasis was placed on biochemical aspects. However, the recently 

 developed models of gene function in bacteria (Jacob and Monod) played an 

 important role in the symposium. 



The book contains 13 papers and a summarising lecture. Papers of particular 

 interest to embryologists are those on the kinetic structure of organisms 

 (Kacser), on nuclear differentiation (Fischberg and Blackler), on oriented cell 

 movements in embryogenesis (DeHaan), on the role of nucleic acids in 

 development and differentiation (Brachet), on specific inductive substances 

 (Tiedemann), and on the transmission of information during primary induction 

 (Saxen). 



Most papers are followed by group discussions, which are usually not very 

 extensive. The book is adequately illustrated and is concluded by an author 

 index. 



Contributors and participants: Attardi (Gif-sur-Yvette), Barigozzi (Milano), Becker (Heiligen- 

 berg), Blackler (Geneve), Brachet (Bruxelles), Buzzati-Traverso (Napoli), Cavalli Sforza 

 (Parma), Ceppellini (Torino), D'Amelio (Palermo), De Carli (Napoli), DeHaan (Baltimore, 

 Md.), Di Mayorca (Milano), Di Pasquale (Milano), Elkholy (Cairo), Fischberg (Geneve), 

 Foulds (London), Ghini (Milano), Hadorn (Zurich), Harris (London), Jacob (Paris), Kacser 

 (Edinburgh), Kepes (Paris), King (New York), E. Klein (Stockholm), G. Klein (Stockholm), 

 Koopmans (Groningen), Levi Montalcini (Roma), L'Heritier (Gif-sur-Yvette), Magni (Pavia), 

 Montalenti (Roma), Monod (Paris), Miihlbock (Amsterdam), Nanney (Urbana, 111.), Ohanes- 

 sian (Gif-sur-Yvette), Plus (Gif-sur-Yvette), Ranzi (Milano), Reverberi (Palermo), Saxen 

 (Helsinki), Scarano (Napoli), Sermonti (Roma), Tiedemann (Heiligenberg), Tiedemann- 

 Waechter (Heiligenberg). 



