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The GS Country Bus single deckers are held in special affection by
many. This lovely new book covers their time in service with London
Transport and, briefly, London Country with detailed accounts of
their use and scheduling. Written with the benefit of extensive
notes and official records in Peter Aves's very readable style,
with assistance from Alan Charman, the book is well illustrated
with photographs of the vehicles and a number of the contemporary
printed timetables. An appendix of maps shows where all the GSs
operated.
This book represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop of the same name, held at St. Andrews University, Scotland
in July of 1989. It was the first meeting of its kind and was
convened as a forum to review and discuss the phylogeny of some of
the cell biological functions that underlie nervous system
function, such matters as intercellular communication in diverse,
lower organisms, and the electrical excitability of protozoans and
cnidarians, to mention but two. The rationale behind such work has
not necessarily been to understand how the first nervous systems
evolved; many of the animals in question provide excellent
opportunities for examining general questions that are
unapproachable in the more complex nervous systems of higher
animals. Nevertheless, a curiosity about nervous system evolution
has invariably pervaded much of the work. The return on this effort
has been mixed, depending to a large extent on the usefulness of
the preparation under examination. For example, work on cnidarians,
to many the keystone phylum in nervous system evolution simply
because they possess the "first" nervous systems, lagged behind
that carried out on protozoans, because the latter are large,
single cells and, thus, far more amenable to microelectrode-based
recording techniques. Furthermore, protozoans can be cultured
easily and are more amenable to genetic and molecular analyses.
This book represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop of the same name, held at St. Andrews University, Scotland
in July of 1989. It was the first meeting of its kind and was
convened as a forum to review and discuss the phylogeny of some of
the cell biological functions that underlie nervous system
function, such matters as intercellular communication in diverse,
lower organisms, and the electrical excitability of protozoans and
cnidarians, to mention but two. The rationale behind such work has
not necessarily been to understand how the first nervous systems
evolved; many of the animals in question provide excellent
opportunities for examining general questions that are
unapproachable in the more complex nervous systems of higher
animals. Nevertheless, a curiosity about nervous system evolution
has invariably pervaded much of the work. The return on this effort
has been mixed, depending to a large extent on the usefulness of
the preparation under examination. For example, work on cnidarians,
to many the keystone phylum in nervous system evolution simply
because they possess the "first" nervous systems, lagged behind
that carried out on protozoans, because the latter are large,
single cells and, thus, far more amenable to microelectrode-based
recording techniques. Furthermore, protozoans can be cultured
easily and are more amenable to genetic and molecular analyses.
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