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"THE BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF RIBONUCLEIC ACIDS"
1960
by J. Brachet Elsevier Publ. Cy.
(6th Weizmann Mem. Lect. Ser.) A'dam, London, New York, Princeton
144 pp.. 41 figs. Price: H.fl. 20.—
The three lectures forming this little book deal respectively with "RNA and
protein synthesis", "The role of RNA in growth and morphogenesis", and
"The role of the cell nucleus in RNA and protein synthesis". The name of
the author warrants a thorough, objective, and at the same time stimulating
treatment of the subject. The lectures were delivered in April, 1959, at the
Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth. The book forms a good source of references
for anyone working in this specialized field, as far as the literature prior to
1959 is concerned.
The book is well illustrated and contains a subject index.
"THE CELL"
Vol. Ill, 1961
Vol. IV, 1960
Editors: J. Brachet and A. E. Mirsky Academic Press
Vol. Ill: 440 pp., 106 figs., 13 tabs. New York and London
Vol. IV: 511 pp., 157 figs., 18 tabs. Price: Vol. Ill: $ 12.00
Vol. IV: $ 18.00
Volume I of this treatise was announced in the eighth full issue, 1959
(page 239). In the meantime the subdivision of the subject matter has been
altered, and the number of volumes to be published has been increased from 3
to 5. Volume I is now succeeded by Volumes HI and IV, the other volumes
following later.
Volume IV and V together will discuss "Specialized cells", while Volume
II will deal with "Cells and their component parts".
Volume III contains only two chapters, one on meiosis, by M. M. Rhoades,
and one on mitosis and the physiology of cell division, by D. Mazia. It is
particularly the latter chapter, comprising more than 300 pages, which is of
significance to developmental biologists.
Volume IV contains chapters on viruses, bacteria, protozoa, intracellular
parasitism and symbiosis, neurons, visual photoreceptors, and muscle cells.
None of these chapters is of specific significance to embryologists, although
they of course contain a wealth of information.
"STUDIES ON VERTEBRATE NEUROGENESIS"
1960
by S. R. y Cajal Charles C. Thomas
(translated by L. Guth) Springfield, Illinois
446 pp., 196 figs. Price: 108 s.
This is a full translation of a little-known book published in French in
Madrid in 1929. The original book is a compilation of hardly accessible older
studies by the author, published originally in Spanish.
The book consists of six parts, which respectively deal with (1) general
histogenesis of the nervous system, and the histological development of (2)
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