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ence o f well-known ophthalmic surgeons from the United States who would give us a talk on a subject o f their choice.
"outer space" histology, f o r it will not be long before the usual stained specimens be come old-fashioned.
Due to the nature o f the Society, w e are not in a position to bear the travelling e x penses, but shall be pleased to offer our hos pitality to the visitors during their stay at Madras f o r the conference.
It would be very helpful and kind, though, if the expert and very elite electron microscopists, w h o speak a new language, would try to orient us a little better and relate the mysterious organelles, intertwining helices, centrosomes, satellites, convoluted Golgi Will interested persons let me know if bodies, ribosomes, polyribosomes and endo they wish to attend the conference and will accept our invitation. M y address is D r . B. plasmic reticulum, etc., forms to things that D . Telang, 395, Lamington Road, Bombay are familiar to us. A t the moment, I feel that most o f us need a map and glossary of 4, India. terms to find our way around. ( S i g n e d ) B . D . Telang, Bombay, India. Dr. Jakus describes her plates very well,
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O C U L A R F I N E STRUCTURE. B y Marie Jakus,
Ph.D. Boston, Little, Brown and C o m pany, 1964. 201 pages, 91 plates, refer ences, index. Price: $15.00. Dr. Jakus, formerly o f the Retina Foun dation, Boston, n o w at the National Insti tutes o f Health, Bethesda, Maryland, is well known f o r her studies on the fine structures of the eye, esjiecially the vitreous. In this volume ( o n e o f future monographs and con ferences sponsored by the Retina Founda tion, Institute o f Biological and Medical Studies), she gives us a rich melange o f excellent reproductions o f selected electron micrographs. These consist o f plates show ing the fine structures o f the cornea, limbus, keratoconus, cornea guttata, corneal scar tis sue, embryogenesis, extracted and reconsti tuted collagen and the lens. By this time all ophthalmologists are at least aware o f the appearance o f some o f the ocular structures in health and disease, as viewed by the electron microscope. N o doubt the pictures are but mysterious squiggles to some o f us w h o were brought up on the or thodox histologic and stained slides o f oph thalmic sections. However, it should stimu late us to become familiar with modern.
however, and this helps us a great deal in our understanding. W e all had better catch on fast because this new science is here to stay and a whole new scientific and exciting, even awesome, discipline is breaking through. T h e book is handsomely printed on the special (and very expensive) paper required for proper reproduction. It is a true work of art (it even looks like some modern art), and one o f which the author, printer and pub lisher can be justly proud. Its publication was made possible through the generosity o f the Massachusetts Lions E y e Research Fund, Inc. W h a t could w e d o without those wonderful Lions? Derrick Vail.
PEDIATRIC
O P H T H A L M O L O G Y . Edited
and
with contributions by Lawrence Byerly Holt, M . D . Philadelphia, Lea 1964. Clothbound, 403 pages, 63 illustrations in black and white, 23 tables, references, index. Price: $12.00. This first American textbook o f pediatric ophthalmology creates something o f a prob lem f o r the reviewer in that it is quite ir regular in quality and not well correlated in subject matter. Several chapters are quite good, giving a comprehensive review o f the subjects under
BOOK
REVIEWS
ence o f well-known ophthalmic surgeons from the United States who would give us a talk on a subject o f their choice.
"outer space" histology, f o r it will not be long before the usual stained specimens be come old-fashioned.
Due to the nature o f the Society, w e are not in a position to bear the travelling e x penses, but shall be pleased to offer our hos pitality to the visitors during their stay at Madras f o r the conference.
It would be very helpful and kind, though, if the expert and very elite electron microscopists, w h o speak a new language, would try to orient us a little better and relate the mysterious organelles, intertwining helices, centrosomes, satellites, convoluted Golgi Will interested persons let me know if bodies, ribosomes, polyribosomes and endo they wish to attend the conference and will accept our invitation. M y address is D r . B. plasmic reticulum, etc., forms to things that D . Telang, 395, Lamington Road, Bombay are familiar to us. A t the moment, I feel that most o f us need a map and glossary of 4, India. terms to find our way around. ( S i g n e d ) B . D . Telang, Bombay, India. Dr. Jakus describes her plates very well,
BOOK
REVIEW.S
O C U L A R F I N E STRUCTURE. B y Marie Jakus,
Ph.D. Boston, Little, Brown and C o m pany, 1964. 201 pages, 91 plates, refer ences, index. Price: $15.00. Dr. Jakus, formerly o f the Retina Foun dation, Boston, n o w at the National Insti tutes o f Health, Bethesda, Maryland, is well known f o r her studies on the fine structures of the eye, esjiecially the vitreous. In this volume ( o n e o f future monographs and con ferences sponsored by the Retina Founda tion, Institute o f Biological and Medical Studies), she gives us a rich melange o f excellent reproductions o f selected electron micrographs. These consist o f plates show ing the fine structures o f the cornea, limbus, keratoconus, cornea guttata, corneal scar tis sue, embryogenesis, extracted and reconsti tuted collagen and the lens. By this time all ophthalmologists are at least aware o f the appearance o f some o f the ocular structures in health and disease, as viewed by the electron microscope. N o doubt the pictures are but mysterious squiggles to some o f us w h o were brought up on the or thodox histologic and stained slides o f oph thalmic sections. However, it should stimu late us to become familiar with modern.
however, and this helps us a great deal in our understanding. W e all had better catch on fast because this new science is here to stay and a whole new scientific and exciting, even awesome, discipline is breaking through. T h e book is handsomely printed on the special (and very expensive) paper required for proper reproduction. It is a true work of art (it even looks like some modern art), and one o f which the author, printer and pub lisher can be justly proud. Its publication was made possible through the generosity o f the Massachusetts Lions E y e Research Fund, Inc. W h a t could w e d o without those wonderful Lions? Derrick Vail.
PEDIATRIC
O P H T H A L M O L O G Y . Edited
and
with contributions by Lawrence Byerly Holt, M . D . Philadelphia, Lea 1964. Clothbound, 403 pages, 63 illustrations in black and white, 23 tables, references, index. Price: $12.00. This first American textbook o f pediatric ophthalmology creates something o f a prob lem f o r the reviewer in that it is quite ir regular in quality and not well correlated in subject matter. Several chapters are quite good, giving a comprehensive review o f the subjects under