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pages on lung carcinoma, and Taxy & Battifora's 70 pages on soft-tissue tumours (each with an impressive reference list of almost 200 citations) will be welcomed by workers in these fields as major reviews. The tumour theme is further explored in a shorter but none the less pertinent and valuable account of prostatic carcinoma by Tannen-baum & Tannenbaum, a chapter interesting for its inclusion of scanning EM as a diagnostically useful technique in an area where the transmission mode predominates. Churg, Spargo, Sakaguchi & Jones' detailed appraisal of one of the earliest and most important areas of application ("Diagnostic Electron Microscopy of Renal Disease") is a substantial account of over 100 pages and is lavishly illustrated (most illustrations being of full-page size). It will be essential reading for any histopathologist encountering renal material, though, despite its title, the chapter omits neoplastic conditions of the kidney. Wood & Hu's "Diagnostic Electron Microscopy of the Skin", covers neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions. This is an excellent treatment of the subject, with some exceptionally fine illustrations. The volume culminates in a comprehensive treatment by Bloodworth, Horvath & Kovacs on the "Fine Structural Pathology of the Endocrine Sys-tem". This chapter, in keeping intellectually and presentationally with the rest of the volume, must be considered a significant contribution to this field. "Diagnostic Electron Microscopy volume 3", in summary, will provide histopatholo-gists with access to or an interest in electron microscopy with authoritative treatments of several major areas of tumour and non-tumour application: it will be particularly welcomed by those specializing in neoplasia. The price of over £50 cannot be considered high for such a quality volume of over 500 pages. B. EDEN New Frontiers in Mammary Pathology. It is the proceedings of a symposium held in Paris in December, 1979 and had reached the bookshops in 1981 at the exhorbitant price of £39.50. The papers were all by invited speakers (9 from France; 2 from Belgium; 2 from U.S.A.; one each from U.K. and Switzerland) and, whilst some of the work described was recent or in progress, many of the "frontiers" being reviewed were passed well before the conference took place. Indeed in some sections, e.g. those on "The Natural History of Benign Breast Tumours" and on "Cystosarcoma phyllodes", there are no new ideas or observations at all, merely pedestrian accounts which would scarcely be adequate in a standard text book. There is little in this …