Progress in Allergy, Vols. 21 and 22

Immunology is blessed with two superb serial publications ofreview articles. It is also interesting that both have misleading titles. Transplantation Reviews has had little to do directly with transplantation and is only now becoming Immunologic Reviews. Similarly, Progress in Allergy is only tangentially related to the clinical discipline of allergy although it began as a much more clinical journal with reviews oftherapy for asthma and environmental allergens. In recent years, however, it has been almost exclusively concerned with more fundamental issues of immunology. The latest two volumes continue this trend. The latest two volumes also continue the high quality of the contributions. The papers are well edited, the tables and reproductions are uniformly excellent. It is difficult to single out special papers but from my point of view as a clinical immu-nologist J.M. Dwyer's "Identifying and Enumerating Human T and B Lympho-cytes" (vol. 21) is an exceptionally helpful review. With 512 references it brings together and clarifies a vast and disparate literature. The paper immediately following Dwyer's, "Humoral Factors Influencing Lymphocyte Transformation" by Nelson and Gatti, further highlights complex issues in T and B cell analysis. Without belaboring the point, this is a superb publication. It certainly belongs in any major library and despite its considerable expense it should be an annual addition to every immunologist's basic library.