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appeared previously. Here we see figures 38, 39, 40 and 41, repeated 

 as figures 44, 45, 46 and 47, whilst the figure originally appearing as fig. 

 36, does duty no less than three times. No doubt it is convenient to 

 have the drawing on the same page as the letterpress referring to it, 

 but in the present instance, at any rate, we think that space might 

 well have been economised, even at the sacrifice of convenience. 



In the other sections things are scarcely more satisfactory. The 

 description of indirect division of the nucleus is short, bald, and 

 utterly insufficient, there is practically no discussion, and no mention 

 of many most important points. 



It is perhaps significant that the bibliography includes thirty-two 

 references only, and that amongst these there does not occur the name 

 of a single English or American author. 



In the next important article — that on the Brain — an excellent 

 account of most of the known facts is given, and in the space of nearly 

 500 pages a mass of information is collected and arranged in such a 

 way as to form a most useful storehouse, to which constant reference 

 will undoubtedly be made. 



The article opens with a historical sketch of 120 pages, then follow 

 seventy-four pages on General Morphology, and a section on the 

 cerebral circulation. 



The bibliography of this section seems particularly full and up to 

 date, the titles of most of the important papers which appeared in 

 1896 being inserted. 



The rest of the article on the general role of the cerebral cortex, the 

 cortical centres, and the conducting functions of the brain, are all well 

 and fully treated, but unfortunately the bibliography has been some- 

 what neglected, and this is the more important in a book which one 

 would naturally turn to for a full and representative list of papers. 



In the article on Heat again we have a fairly complete and ex- 

 haustive account of the subject, and the first section on Heat Production 

 in living beings has a bibliography extending to nine pages. Then 

 follows a short section on General Biology, and in section 3 we have 

 an account of the action of heat on living beings, with a bibliography 

 of twelve pages. 



For these two important articles then we have nothing but praise ; — 

 they are worthy of the work in which they appear, and will prove useful 

 to physiologists for many years to come. As regards the rest of the 

 articles most of them are sufficiently fully treated, or at all events as 

 fully as their importance justifies when space is limited — but we must 

 repeat that in a work like the present, that although of course there 

 cannot be included exhaustive accounts of every point in physiology, 

 yet there ought certainly to be given in every case a full bibliography, 

 and the editor would do well to insure such being provided in future 

 sections. 



