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in human dentition, while Sofaer ' s study of developmental stability in the
mouse vertebral column provides interesting material for comparison with
tooth rows. Luke et at. discuss the problem of ageing human fetuses on the
basis of their tooth germs.
The book is well produced and profusely illustrated.
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D.A.EDE, J.R.HINCHLIFFE and M. BALLS, eds. 1977, VERTEBRATE LIMB AND SOMITE
MORPHOGENESIS
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, etc. Symp. Brit. Soc. for Devi. Biol. 3.
X,498 pp., 148 figs., 41 tabs., combined taxonomic and subject index. £ 20.00
Contvibutors : Amprino, Bellairs, Bryant, Cairns, Caplan, Chevallier, Cooke,
Ede, Fallon, Flint, Goel, Goetinck, Hinchliffe, Kelley, Kieny, Lewis,
MacCabe, Menkes, Newman, Pautou, Raynaud, Saunders, Searls, Shellswell,
Simpson, Stocum, Summerbell, Wilby, Williams
The international band of contributors to this symposium provide a representative
cross-section of the growing world-wide community of scientists
working in these fields. Of the 29 papers, one is a review and several are
reports of unpublished work. The others are concise but well-written mixtures
of recent published work and new findings, in varying proportions.
Particularly in the area of avian limb morphogenesis there is much overlap
and little or no "interaction" between the papers: each contributor brings
his own slightly different point of view, and it is therefore a pity that the
discussions were not recorded: they must have been fascinating and enlightening.
Nevertheless, there is in the papers a wealth of material that was very
new at the time of writing; much of this represents important advances which
show that several ideas which were s© far generally accepted are no longer
true.
Sixteen papers deal with limb morphogenesis in birds, five with mammalian
and reptilian limbs, three with amphibian limb regeneration, and five with
somitogenesis in amniotes and amphibians. The book is illustrated with good
drawings and photographs.
72.
O.C.JAFFEE, ed. 1970. CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONGENITAL
HEART DISEASE
Univ. of Dayton Press, Dayton, Ohio. 168 pp., 97 figs., 8 tabs., subject index.
This symposium report was reviewed in Gen. Embryol. Inf. Serv. 14, 1971.
The editor tells us that he still has a stock and that he is willing to send
a copy free of charge to those who might want it. Address: Biol. Dept. , Univ.
of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA
73.
M.SEIJI and I.A.BERNSTEIN, eds. 1977. BIOCHEMISTRY OF CUTANEOUS EPIDERMAL
DIFFERENTIATION
Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, etc.; Univ. of Tokyo Press, Tokyo. XII, 514 pp.,
276 figs., 76 tabs., subject index. $ 65.00, £ 39.50
This symposium was held in Sendai, Japan in June 1976 and brought together
workers from all laboratories in Japan and the U.S.A. engaged in research in
this area. The papers are mixtures of review and research material in various
proportions, and all but a few are followed by group discussions. They
deal almost exclusively with the epidermis in the strict sense, excluding
melanocytes and special epidermal differentiations (except hairs in 2
papers) but including wound healing (3 papers) and chalones (1 paper). Most
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