News & Views in 1977

My Uncle Eustace—Maker of Rings (1885–1916)

• Deric Bolton

Jeffreys Lecturer links Sun and weather

• John Gribbin

Surveying the Moon

• G. Fielder

A hundred years ago

Benioff splitting

• Peter J. Smith

A liquid permanent magnet?

• P. V. E. McClintock

Relevance of parasitology

• F. E. G. Cox

Gel motility

• Dennis Bray

Two-photon ionisation interference effects

• Peter Knight

Immune surveillance revisited

• R. W. Baldwin

Are comets dirty snowballs or dust swarms?

• David W. Hughes

Problems with pollen

• Peter D. Moore

Genes in development

• Ron Laskey
• Peter Lawrence
• Eddy De Robertis

Serum albumin structure and function

• Michael Geisow

Energetics and antibiotic uptake

• J. R. Saunders
• Venetia A. Saunders

Electron diffraction up to date

• A. Howie

How many species?

• A. Hallam

Ribosomal gene organisation in Tetrahymena

• Carol Klukas

Somatomedins and related growth factors

• M. M. Rechler
• S. P. Nissley

International histocompatibility testing workshop 1977

• F. Kissmeyer-Nielsen