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"FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF NORMAL AND
MALIGNANT GROWTH"
1960
Editor: W. W. Nowinski Elsevier Publ. Cy.
1025 pp. 340 figs., 52 tabs. Amsterdam-London-New York-Princeton
Price: H.fl. 110.—
This large treatise is a collaborative effort of fourteen contributors. It is
concerned with growth in its broadest sense, and, besides growth sensu stricto,
extensively discusses such subject as germinal organization and embryonic
induction, the biochemistry of differentiation, regeneration and wound healing,
carcinogenesis, the metabolism of the cancer cell, mitotic poisoning by antimetabolites,
and the aging process.
Further chapters deal with the roles of nucleic acids and nitrogen metabolism
in growth, with growth in tissue culture, and with plant growth.
The book opens with two introductory chapters, one on principles and
theory of growth, and one dealing with intermediary metabolism of building
blocks involved in growth. Associated with the latter chapter is a loose "map",
printed in five colours, and summarizing the metabolic pathways along which
chemical substances are utilized in cells.
The text is supplemented with many figures. Each chapter is followed by
a large bibliography. The book is concluded by an extensive subject index. The
printing and binding of the book are very good.
Contributors: Andrew (Indianapolis, Ind.), von Bertalanffy (Topeka, Kansas), Biesele (New
York), Brachet (Bruxelles), Clark (Storrs, Conn.), Dalcq (Bruxelles), Griffin (Houston,
Texas), Herrmann (Storrs, Conn.), Kirschbaum (Houston, Texas), Kit (Houston, Texas),
Needham (Oxford, England), Thimann (Cambridge, Mass.), Washburn Jr. (Galveston,
Texas), Waymouth (Bar Harbor, Maine)
"MARSHALL'S PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION"
3rd edition
Editor: A. S. Parkes
Vol. I, part I and II, 1960
Longmans, Green & Co.
part I: 708 pp., 129 figs. London etc.
part II: 897 pp.. 244 figs. Price: part I: 150 s.
part II: 240 s.
This standard work hardly needs to be reviewed extensively here. The only
thing that calls for some comment is the complicated history of the third
edition. The second edition dates from 1922. Of the third edition, edited again
by A. S. Parkes, Volume II was the first volume to appear (1952). During the
preparation of Volume I it became necessary to divide this into two parts.
Part one appeared in 1956, and was reprinted in 1960. Part two appeared in
1960, but during its preparation it appeared necessary to split off the portion
dealing with the endocrinology of mammalian reproduction. This portion will
be published as Volume III in 1961.
The division of the subject matter among the volumes is now as follows:
Vol. I, part I: breeding season; morphology of the reproductive organs;
cyclic changes in the female.
Vol. I, part II: spermatogenesis and sperm; copulation and insemination;
biology of spermatozoa; fertilization; reproductive endocrinology of lower
vertebrates and birds; exteroceptive factors.
Vol. II: cleavage, early development and implantation; placentation; physio-
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