Essentials of Tissue Culture Technique

Abstract

THIS admirable book should be acquired by everyone who uses the tissue culture technique. It contains delightfully clear and precise descriptions of most of the chief tissue culture methods and the apparatus and laboratory accommodation required, and also deals in great detail with such general matters as the arrangement and ventilation of the laboratory, sterilisation, cleaning of glassware and the preparation of physiological solutions. There is a chapter by C. G. Grand devoted to photomicrography, and the book concludes with four useful appendixes, one of which enumerates the principal pitfalls which the beginner is likely to encounter, and will doubtless prove a boon to many readers. The references to literature are listed in a bibliography and should have been more carefully checked, as at least two of the references to special techniques are wrong. Essentials of Tissue Culture Technique By Gladys Cameron; Illustrations and Chapter on Photomicrography by C. G. Grand. Pp. xvi + 134 + 9 plates. (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1935.) 3 dollars.