Spoel, S. van der et al. (eds) — Pathways in malacology.

1979 [3], 295 p., many text figures, brown publisherâÇÖs cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Small stamps of Herbert Ant, else a fine copy. The combined lectures on "hot" topics in malacology presented at the sixth Unitas Malacologica Europaea congress in Amsterdam, 1977, and which are still debated today. This book contains the 11 invited lectures of the sixth UME congress: 1) J. Lever: On torsion in gastropods. 2) N. H. Verdonk: Symmetry and asymmetry in the embryonic development of molluscs. 3) A. S. M. Saleuddin: Shell formation in molluscs with special reference to periostracum formation and shell regeneration. 4) C. M. Yonge: Cementation in the bivalvia. 5) J. Joosse: Hormones in molluscs. 6) M. J. Wells: The world of a mollusc; brain and behaviour in Octopus vulgaris. 7) A. de Zwaan: Energy metabolism in molluscs. 8) Marie-Louise Furnestin: Planktonic molluscs as hydrological and ecological indicators. 9) J. Knudsen: Deep-sea bivalves. 10) Alan Solem: A theory of land snail biogeographic patterns through time. 11) Emile A. Malek: Control of snail hosts of schistosomiasis.