Announcements of New Books

ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NEW BOOKS BIOCHEMISTRY Molecules and Evolution (new paperbound edition). By Thomas H. Jukes. New York: Columbia University Press, October, 1968. Pp. 285. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $10.00 (cloth); $3.95 (paper). A review ofthe facts ofmolecular biology and a study ofthe homologies and differences ofthe primary sequences ofnucleic acids and proteins. Quantitatative Problems in the Biochemical Sciences. By Rex Montgomery and Charles A. Swenson. San Francisco:W. H. Freeman & Co., March, 1969. Pp. 310. Illus. Index. $2.95. A workbook designed for supplementary use in introductory biochemistry courses for undergraduate students in the life sciences, the health sciences, agriculture, and other disciplines. It not only provides ample practice in solving biochemical problems but also discusses the principles involved in applying mathematics to laboratory data to obtain useful results. Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. By John Morrow Stewart and Janis Dillaha Young. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co.,January, 1969. Pp. xi-f103. Illus. Index. $5.00. This audioritative handbook provides all the practical details required to make use of a dramatic new experimental method that is expected to play an important role in the chemical synthesis ofproteins. Because syndieticpeptides are useful to biochemists, physical chemists, pharmacologists, immunotogists, and others, these advances generate wide interest. Virus-induced Enzymes. By Seymour S. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, November, 1968. Pp. 350. $11.50. Dr. Cohen, a pioneer in the field, writes on the origins and development ofbiochemical virology, with particular reference to a key area of virus multiplication, that of virusinduced synthesis ofproteins. BIOLOGY Algae, Man, and the Environment. Edited by Daniel F.Jackson. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, December, 1968. Pp. viii+554. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $18.00. Twenty-seven papers by specialists from Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Japan, England, and the United States examine water pollution, algal toxicity, algal taxonomy, and progress on algal problems in their respective countries. Announcements ofNew Books Perspectives in Biology and Medicine · Spring 1969 The Basis ofProgressive Evolution, ist ed. By G. Ledyard Stebbins. Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press, April, 1969. Pp. 160. Figs. Index. $5.00 (cloth); $1.95 (paper). The book relates the extraordinary biological discoveries pertaining to DNA and the nucleic acids to their evolutionary implications, to the emergence ofman as a species, and to the social organizations ofman. It relates all aspects ofthe "molecular revolution" in a complete, yet incisive, manner. Biology andPathology ofRhizoctonia Solani. Edited byJ. R. Parmeter. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press,June, 1969. Pp. 320. Illus. $10.00. Contains the proceedings of a symposium on R. solani, held under the auspices of the American Phytopathological Society in 1965. The papen are a carefully organized survey ofpresent knowledge ofthis plant fungus which causes important losses to agriculture throughout the world. Biometry, the Principles and Practice ofStatistics in BiologicalResearch. By Robert R. Sokal and F. James Rohlf. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., April, 1969. Pp. 765. Illus. Index. In this introductory textbook the authors provide a balanced presentation ofstatistical methodology for the descriptive, experimental, and analytical study of biological phenomena . Especially compiled and computed statistical tables to accompany the text are available as a separate clothbound or paperbound volume. Early Foundations ofMexican Herpetology. By Hobart M. Smith and Rozella B. Smith. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, April, 1969. Pp. ix-f-85. Bibliog. Index. $6.50. This annotated bibliographical analysis provides the first thorough synopsis ofthe works of Alfredo Duges (1826-1910), the "father ofMexican herpetology." To offset the inaccessibility ofhis works, the authors have indexed every herpetological study by Duges, so that the researcher in the field can determine whether he ever dealt with a given taxon. Essentials ofHuman Anatomy, 4th ed. By Russell T. Woodburne. New York: Oxford University Press,January, 1969. Pp. 550. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $15.00. This diorough yet concise edition serves the needs ofdie shortened curriculum in anatomy . Regionally organized, it can be read almost continuously since its arrangement matches the sequence of most dissection courses. Terminology used is that of the Paris nomenclature (1955) and New York revision (i960). Essentials ofHuman Embryology, 2d ed. By Frank D. Allan. New York: Oxford University Press, February, 1969. Pp. 336. Illus. Index. $9.50. For a one-term introductory course in human...