GROWING-POINTS IN THE STUDY OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

EXPERIMENTAL morphology is a subject which has long suffered from the scattered nature of its publication mechanisms. The great series of the Archiv. f. Entwicklungsmechanik was at one time central, but is now, alas! no longer available, and though the American anatomical journals long offered a home for such studies, much of the work appeared in the proceedings of learned societies not always very accessible (for example, the Finnish contributions). Work on the borderlines of biochemistry and morphology, in particular, was widely scattered. Hence the need for some periodical publications of the regular conference type, to do for experimental morphology what the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia had begun to do so well for general physiology. The symposia now under review* are often referred to by the name of “Growth Supplements” ; the correct description enshrining an auspicious pun. They will certainly stimulate the growth of our knowledge about growth and differentiation.