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Volume 24, Issue 6

October 1962

ISSN 0002-7685

EISSN 1938-4211

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Book Reviews

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In My Opinion: Why Does a Biologist Become a Biologist?

Frits Went

Front Matter

The Biology of Nuclear War

Bentley Glass

Aids for the Science Teacher

Information Processing in the Animal Brain

Edmond P. Odescalchi

Lymphocytosis Response in Mice Pretreated with Thymus Cells

Meyer L. Gottlieb

Does Light Affect the Growth of Plants?

John F. Walsh, Jr.

Anti-Depressant Drugs

Experiments with Plants to Investigate the Cancer Process

Robert C. Goss

The Experimental Approach to Bacteria and Disease

Kenneth H. Bush, Florence J. White

Seeds

Back Matter

Book Reviews

Growth and Metabolism

Review: Growth in Living Systems, by M. X. Zarrow

Frank Zeller

Review: Morphogenesis of the Vertebrates, by Theodore W. Torrey

Review: Developmental Anatomy, by Theodore W. Torrey

Review: Experimental Embryology, by Roberts Rugh

Review: Modern Theories of Development: An Introduction to Theoretical Biology, by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

James Sanders

Review: How Animals Develop, by C. H. Waddington

James M. Sanders

Review: On Growth and Form, by D'Arcy W. Thompson and J. T. Bonner

Sears Crowell

Review: From Fish to Philosopher, by Homer W. Smith

Review: How Life Goes On, by Irving Zeichner

Review: Life and Energy, by Isaac Asimov

Thomas D. Brock

Review: Chemical Ultrastructure in Living Tissues, by J. B. Finean

Charles W. Hagen,, Jr.

Review: Respiratory Metabolism in Plants, by Harry Beevers

Carlos Miller

Review: The Integrity of the Body, by F. M. Burnet

John M. Hamilton

Review: Biological Sciences, Volume 3, the Entry of Fission Products into Food Chains, by J. L. Loutit and R. Scott Russell

Charles W. Hagen,, Jr.

Review: Macromolecular Complexes, by M. V. Edds, Jr.

Carlos Miller

Review: Control Mechanisms in Cellular Processes, by David M. Bonner

Carlos Miller

Review: Transplantation of Tissues and Cells, by R. E. Billingham and Willys K. Silvers

John M. Hamilton

Review: Synthesis of Molecular and Cellural Structure, by Dorothea Rudnick

Charles W. Hagen,, Jr.

Review: Biochemical Mechanisms, by Lloyd L. Ingraham

Charles W. Hagen,, Jr.

Review: Nerves and Muscles, by Robert Galambos

Review: The Biosynthesis of Proteins, by H. Chantrenne

Charles W. Hagen,, Jr.

Review: Life in the Universe, by Michael W. Ovenden

Review: Textbook of Comparative Histology, by Warren Andrew

Review: Progress in Microscopy, by M. Francon

Robert P. Wagner

Review: Animal Tissue Techniques, by Gretchen L. Humason

Genetics and Evolution

Review: Genetics, by Robert C. King

Review: Heredity and Your Life, by A. M. Winchester

Review: Life's Key: DNA, by Carleen Maley Hutchins

Review: Genetical Variation in Human Populations, by G. A. Harrison

Robert P. Wagner

Review: The Substance of Man, by Jean Rostand

Review: The Science of Genetics, by Charlotte Auerbach

Review: Medical Genetics 1958-1960, by Victor A. McKusick

Review: The Basic Facts of Human Heredity, by Amram Scheinfeld

Review: Genetics and Evolution, by A. H. Sturtevant

Helen Unger Meyer

Review: Time's Arrow and Evolution, by Harold F. Blum

James M. Sanders

Review: A Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory, by Herbert H. Ross

Biophysics

Review: Biophysics of Physiological and Pharmacological Actions, by Abraham M. Shanes

M. C. Lockett

Earth Science

Review: Soils Suitable for Septic Tank Filter Fields, AIB-243, by William H. Benden

James M. Sanders

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