Books: Sound Reception in Mammals

Abstract

To publish the proceedings of a symposium is almost always to produce a string of somewhat unrelated chapters composed in very uneven writing. To publish a symposium organized jointly by two societies would appear to court disaster. The editors of the book<i>Sound Reception in Mammals</i>not only did just that but they also got away with it. The Zoological Society of London and the British Society of Audiology held a joint meeting, which in itself is beyond possibility in the United States. The idea of a joint meeting was suggested by Dr L. Fisch of the British Society of Audiology who proposed the common theme of hearing. The Zoological Society immediately accepted the idea, and a program committee was formed comprised of members who, in turn, became the editors of the book. The program committee refined the theme of the symposium to restrict presentations to those that would "compare