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advanced student while the experienced investigator may also frequently use 

 it in order to verify certain facts or to compare special topographical and 

 temporal relations. It would therefore be advisable to mention the literature 

 references in the text with year of publication in order to facihtate a reading 

 of the original literature. The list of references of the various chapters could 

 then be combined, so that repetitions would be avoided. 



The small deficiencies are only mentioned as possible suggestions for 

 improvements of this in so many respects excellent textbook, with which we 

 hke to congratulate the author and also ourselves very cordially. 



P. D. NIEUWKOOP 



..AN OUTLINE OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY" 

 Third Edition. 1952 



by L. V. Heilbrunn W. B. Saunders Co. 



818 p.p. with 123 figs Philadelphia-London 



price: S 10.50 



It is pleasure to review this third edition, since the second edition, published 

 in 1943, was gradually very much out of date by the rapid growth of this 

 very extensive field of science. The author has put himself to a heavy task 

 by bringing this new edition up to date. An enormous amount of literature 

 had to be incorporated in the text, new problems had to be put forward. We 

 must confess that we have great admiration for the form in which this enormous 

 hterature (4300 references) has been brought together in this textbook. The 

 author nearly always succeeded in giving the main facts in a very concise 

 form against the background of the fundamental problems of life and hving 

 material. The literature in foreign languages is richly represented. The 

 references at the bottom of the pages may actually induce the students to 

 read the original hterature, so that this textbook may have also a high 

 didactic value. 



The subdivision of the extensive text, the simple and clear form of writing 

 and the well chosen illustrations make this textbook to one of the most 

 valuable sources of information and guides in this extensive field, so that 

 we warmly recommend this excellent textbook, which the author so character- 

 istically called an outline of general physiology, to all students in biology 

 and medicine. We find that this book might not be lacking in any good 

 laboratory library. 



P. D. NIEUWKOOP 



..THE PRENATAL ORIGIN OF BEHAVIOR" 

 1952 



by D. Hooker Porter Lectures, Series 18 



143 pp. with 6 figs and 4 tabs Univ. of Kansas Press 



Lawrence (Kan.) 

 price: $ 2.50 



This book presents the subject matter treated by the author during his 

 Porter Lectureship at the Kansas School of Medicine. 



As an introduction, in Chapter I the author gives a "necessarily rather 

 superficial review", as he himself states on page 6, of the development of 



