SCIENTIFIC LITER A TUBE. 



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SCIENTIFIC LITEEATUEE. 



I'U YtSWLOUlVAL VHEMH^TRY. 

 Since the publication of the brief 

 review in the August number of the 

 Monthly, the literature of this sub- 

 ject lias continued to receive iiuportant 

 additions, wliich indicate the increasinsr 

 influence of the chemical aspects of 

 biological study. The appreciation of 

 this fact has given rise to the appear- 

 ance of the Biochemisches Central- 

 blatt* under tlie editorial supervision 

 of P. Ehrlich, E. Fischer, A. Kossel, 0. 

 Liebreich, F. Miiller, B. Proskauer, E. 

 Salkowski and N. Zuntz. These well- 

 known names alone suffice to assure a 

 future for the new journal, which is 

 to report at brief intervals abstracts 

 of chemical or biochemical investisa- 

 tions having a bearing on the biolog- 

 ical sciences and medicine in particu- 

 lar. It is hoped in this way to enable 

 the chemist, the physician and the gen- 

 eral biologist to obtain a brief survey 

 of the entire domain of activity along 

 related chemical lines of work. The 

 few numbers of the Centralhlatt al- 

 ready at hand contain, in addition, 

 cursory reviews of the literature upon 

 restricted topics, e. g., the proteids, 

 alimentary processes, etc., written by 

 competent scientists. 



A more critical resume is aimed at 

 in the ' Ergebnisse der Physiologic,' f 

 the first volume of which has recently 

 appeared under the joint editorship of 

 Professor Leon Asher, of Berne, and 

 Dr. Karl Spiro, of Strasburg. With 

 the collaboration of a large number of 

 many well-known physiologists, it is 

 * Gebriider Borntrager, Berlin, 1903. 

 t J. F. Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1902. 



proposed to publish yearly two vol- 

 umes, one of which is to be devoted to 

 biochemistry, the other to biophysics 

 and psychophysics. The entire field of 

 physiology will thus be reviewed from 

 time to time in the form of essays, 

 more exhaustive, critical and suggest- 

 ive than any mere compilation of ab- 

 stracts could be. If one may judge by 

 the character of the contributions to 

 the first volume, it seems inevitable 

 that the ' Ergebnisse ' will become an 

 important work of reference; and it 

 will serve, even better than most text- 

 books, to keep the physiologist in touch 

 with current progress in the study of 

 the problems of biology. 



Maly's ' Jahresbericlit iiber die Fort- 

 schritte der Thierchemie ' completes its 

 thirty-first year under the editorship 

 of Professor Andreasch and Dr. Spiro, 

 the latter taking the place of the late 

 Professor v. Nencki. Dr. H. C. Jack- 

 son, of New York, has been added to 

 the list of contributors. 



Dr. O. V. Furth's ' Vergleichende 

 chemische Physiologie der niederen 

 Thiere * is one of the most valuable of 

 the new books. The interest which the 

 study of the lower forms has aroused 

 lately has for the most part been con- 

 fined to the more purely physical and 

 morphological features of animal life. 

 The chemical data accumulated during 

 many years and scattered through 

 various journals and monographs have 

 now been collected by v. Fiirth into a 

 series of chapters useful for reference 

 and helpful in suggesting opportuni- 

 ties for research. 



* Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1903. 



