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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NEW BOOKS BIOCHEMISTRY The Chemistry ofLife. By Steven Rose. Baltimore: Penguin Books, Inc., 1966. Pp. 272. Illus. Index. $1.75. A guide for the general reader to the history, scope, and achievements ofmodem biochemistry , the science which may someday answer the question: "What is life?" Steven Rose is a research chemist on the staffofthe Medical Research Council, London University . Living Control Systems. By L. E. Bayliss. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. (Published in United States by special arrangements with The English Universities Press, Ltd., London.) Pp. 218. $5.00. BIOLOGY Animal Ecology in TropicalAfrica. By D. F. Owen. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. (Published in North America by special arrangements with Oliver & Boyd, Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland.) Pp. 122. $5.00. The author ofthis book stresses those problems that have a peculiarly tropical relevance or that are best studied in the tropics. These include the number and abundance oftropical species, the complexity of regulation of tropical populations, seasonal events, the ecological genetics ofpopulations, and human ecology in tropical Africa. Ecological Methods with Particular Reference to the Study ofInsect Populations. By T. R. E. Southwood. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., October, 1966. Pp. 391. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $13.50. Provides the first comprehensive account of the methods used to measure, describe, and analyze animal populations and communities. Bringing together information that was formerly available only in a large number ofjournals, it offers invaluable aid in research work—whether in agricultural or medical zoology, conservation or academic ecology— and teaching. The Embryological Treatises ofHieronymus Fabricius ofAquapendente: The Formation ofthe Egg and ofthe Chick (De Formatione Ovi et Pulli): The Formed Fetus (De Formato Foetu), 2 vols. A Facsimile Edition. Introduction, translation, and commentary by Howard B. Adelmann. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966. Pp. 908. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $25.00 set (boxed). In addition to the commentaries and translations ofthe original Latin treatises, Dr. Adelmann has written a series ofessays on the intellectual background, mode ofthought, and the achievement of a leading physician and investigator ofthe sixteenth century. Announcements ofNew Books · Advertising Perspectives in Biology and Medicine · Winter 1967 General Zoology, 2d ed. By Gardner B. Moment. Edited by Bentley Glass. Boston: Houghton MifHin Co., February, 1967. Pp. xvii+718. Illus. Index. Detailed exposition ofthe science ofanimal biology in light ofmomentous and far-reaching advances of modem biochemical and behavioral research. Extensive discussion of significantconcepts andproblems, new approaches, reflects thecontinuallychanging body of knowledge in areas such as molecular biology, cellular structure, developmental biology , energy pathways, and behavior. A Guide to Dissection in Gross Anatomy, 2d ed. By Russell T. Woodburne. New York: Oxford University Press,January, 1967. Pp. 162. Illus. Index. $3.50 (paper). Directs students ofmedicine and dentistry in organized dissection ofthe body by regions without invasion to areas not under examination. Organized so that instructor may adapt material to course requirements, simple graphic illustrations aid in identifying lines ofincision and separation. Especially co-ordinated with Woodburne's Essentials ofHuman Anatomy, this book may be used with other textbooks. Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution ofEmbryology, 5 vols. By Howard B. Adelmann. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966. Pp. 2475. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $200.00 set (boxed). This monumental study focuses on the life and work of Marcello Malpighi, the seventeenth -century Italian scientist whose extraordinary achievements make him one of the cardinal figures in the history of biology. Phylogenetic Systematics. By Willi Hennig. Translated by D. Dwight Davis and Rainer Zangerl. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Pp. 288. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $12.50. The first English edition and publication in any language of an extensively revised, updated version of Willi Hennig's controversial book, Grundzüge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematik, attempts to establish the ultimate importance of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system of biology. The Physiology of Trematodes. ByJ. D. Smyth. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. (Published in North America by special arrangement with Oliver & Boyd, Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland.) Pp. 256. Illus. $4.00. This book provides for students and research workers in parasitology, veterinary science, and tropical medicine a lively and stimulating insight into the modem biologist's approach to the study ofparasitic organisms, as exemplified by Trematodes. The Senses. By Otto...

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