1. Needham, J., 1931, Chemical Embryology, 3 volumes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2. Needham, J., 1934, A History of Embryology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
3. Needham, J., 1942, Biochemistry and Morphogenesis, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
4. The first paper was Waddington, C., Needham, J., and Moyle, D., 1934, Physico-chemical experiments on the amphibian organizer, Proc. Roy. Soc. B 114:393–422. For broader context and references to other collaborative papers throughout the 1930s
5. Abir-Am, P. G., 1988, The assessment of interdisciplinary research in the 1930s: The Rockefeller Foundation and physicochemical morphology, Minerva 26: 153–176.