Geoffrey Davenport, Ian McDonald and Caroline Moss-Gibbons, The Royal College of Physicians and its collections: an illustrated history, London, Royal College of Physicians, 2001, pp. 168, illus., UK £38.00, overseas £45.00 (hardback 0-907-383-831). Michael Dunnill, The Plato of Praed Street: the life and times of Almroth Wright, London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 269, ill...

It is a very useful little book of its kind ; in fact, is a cheaper form of the numerous "Aids" and " Essentials" published by various firms. If used properly, they have their use. (2) The Practical Hints by Mr. K. S. AgniHOTRI, author of a popular book entitled "The General Dispenser." It is intended for" the requirements of practitioners who desire to keep abreast with the progress of modern ...

B. Beckman: Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program during World War II, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2002, 259 pp., $39, ISBN 0-8218-2889-4 All stories about cryptanalytical work prior and during the World War II read like a thriller. The book under review is no exception. The author, the former head of the cryptanalytical section of FRA (The Radio Agency of th...

A D Cliff, M R Smallman-Raynor, P Haggett, D F Stroup and S B Thacker, Emergence and re-emergence: infectious diseases: a geographical analysis, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. xxxvi, 764, £100.00 (hardback 978-0-19-924473-7). Horacio Fabrega Jr,History of mental illness in India: a cultural psychiatry retrospective, Indian Medical Tradition, vol. 10, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2009, pp. xx...

Background: Rybp (Ring1 and YY1 binding protein) is a zinc finger protein which interacts with the members of the mammalian polycomb complexes. Previously we have shown that Rybp is critical for early embryogenesis and that haploinsufficiency of Rybp in a subset of embryos causes failure of neural tube closure. Here we investigated the requirement for Rybp in ocular development using four in vi...