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A special feature of the book is the extensive historical introductory chapter,
which goes back to the third century B.C.
Beside the illustrations, the book contains many tables and graphs. The
bibliography serves at the same time as an author index. A subject index is
not included.
"ATLAS OF AVIAN HEMATOLOGY"
1961
by A. M. Lucas and C. Jamroz U.S. Govmnt. Printing Office
(Agriculture Monograph no. 25) Washington, D.C.
277 pp., 48 coloured pis. Price: $ 4.00
(413 figs.)
This atlas consists of a very large number of original coloured pictures of
fixed and stained blood cells, accompanied by an extensive text. The atlas
covers not only the adult chick blood, but also the blood of the embryo from
2 days onwards. It also includes the developmental stages of the blood cells
found in the blood-forming organs of both the adult and the embryo. Furthermore,
the images and the text are concerned not only with typical cell types,
but also with atypical and abnormal cells. More limited studies on 33 other
avian species are added.
The book contains extensive discussions on terminology and on hematological
techniques as applied to birds. There is a large bibliography and a very
detailed subject index.
"GLANDS OF INTERNAL SECRETION IN THE EMBRYONIC
DEVELOPMENT OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS"
1959
by M. S. Mitskevich Israel Program for Scientific
314 pp., 63 figs. Translations
(paper-bound) Jerusalem
Price: $9.00
This is a translation of a book originally published in Russian in 1957.
The author works in the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Animal Morphology of
the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow.
The present book was reproduced by a photographical technique from a
typewritten copy. It contains reproductions of the original figures.
The book is primarily based on original investigations of the author and
his co-workers, and of numerous other Russian investigators. These are supplemented
by data of a considerable number of non-Russian authors. The author's
main pre-occupation is with the "neuralistic" views of Pavlov, according to
which the central nervous system is the main "integrator" of the organism, and
correlates the activities of all endocrine organs from the first beginning of their
functional activity.
The subjects treated in the chapters following the two introductory ones are:
the thyroid gland, the hypophysis, thyroid-pituitary interrelations, the pancreas,
neural regulation of endocrine activity, influence of maternal hormones in birds,
and endocrine interrelations between mother and foetus.
The bibliography covers 41 pages (17 for Russian authors, 24 for non-
Russian references). A subject index is lacking.
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