It is ten years since the first symposium on cell locomotion was held (Locomotion of Tissue Cells, Ciba Foundation Symposium 14, 1972). That meeting was chaired by Michael Abercrombie, and in his intro- ductory remarks he commented on the extent to which the importance of cell locomotion, apart from that seen in leucocytes, had been under- estimated. Much has been done to correct that neglect during the suc- ceeding decade, and we have learned more about the underlying mechanisms of cell locomotion and about the factors which may influence it. Abercrombie was himself a major contributor to...