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Book Reviews BIOLOGY OF THE SKIN AND HAIR GROWTH, edited by A. G. Lyne and B. 1 ½. Short. American Elsevier Pub- lishing Company, Inc., New York. 1965. 806 pages, illustrated and indexed. Price $14.50. This book is not, as the title im- plies, a text on the biology of the skin and hair but is rather a compendium of 46 papers which were presented at a symposium sponsored by the Australian Academy of Science at Canberra, Australia, in 1964. The collection includes: Thirteen papers dealing with assorted biological as- peers of animal and human skin ranging from a short review on "Some Unresolved Problems in the Biology of Skin" by R. E. Billingham and W. K. Silvers to "Integumentary Modifications of North American Desert Rodents" by W. B. Quay six papers on feather studies and 27 papers relating mainly to wool and other types of animal hair. Con- sidering the locale of the conference, it is not surprising to find that ap- proximately two-thirds of the papers presented are concerned with topics of prime interest to scientists in the sheep growing and wool industries. Although each of the papers (chap- ters) is well written by renowned ex- perts in their respective fields, the collection as a whole is unwieldly and lacks continuity because of the wide range of unrelated topics. Unfortunately, it has become the vogue during the past decade for sponsors of miscellaneous symposia, seminars, and conferences to publish the proceedings of such meetings immediately in book form. This is indeed a disservice both to the authors and to the scientific community since such papers rarely reach as wide a readership as would be the ease if published in one of the well- known scientific journals. What is more serious is the fact that the con- tents of such texts are rarely ab- stracted and may be missed entirely by workers in allied fields. The excellent chapters on "Soluble Pre- keratin" by A. G. Matoltsy, "An Approach to the Investigation of Protein Biosynthesis in Hair l•ol- lides" by G. E. Rogers and R. M. Clarke, "Current State of Pigment Research" by G. STab6, and "Re- placement Kinetics of Integumental Epithelia" by E. J. Van Scott are 373