Reproductive Physiology, Comparative Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals, Laboratory Animals, and Man

NALBANDOV, A. V., Reproductive Physiology, Comparative Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals, Laboratory Animals, and Man. 2nd ed. W. H. Freeman and Company, 660 Market St., San Francisco 4, California; Warner House, 48 Upper Thames St., London E.C. 4, Great Britain. pp. 316, $7.50. The first edition of this book, published in 1958, established its reputation as a “must” for all students—undergraduate, graduate or professor—of reproductive physiology. It “grew out” of a lecture course in the physiology of reproduction of animals given to students in agriculture, zoology, veterinary and human medicine, physiology, nutrition and even * home economics. The second edition is likewise a must—only more so! As is stated in the Introduction—“The problems faced by the rat, the elephant, and the chicken, in reproducing the species, are basically the same.” The author, in the Preface to the First Edition, wrote a paragraph that should be read by . . .