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namics, and F. E. Stewart, prof. of materia medica and botany, Medico-Chi. Coli., 

 Phila. Pp. 158— 4X6j/; $1.50 net. F. Blakiston's Son and Co., Phila., 1914. 

 Laboratory manual for students of pharmacy, pharm, chemistry and medicine as 

 well as for experts engaged in laboratories devoted to drug standardization. 

 Represents in large part the authors' experimental research. The volume deals 

 exclusively with drugs that cannot be standardized by direct chemical means. 

 Methods and apparatus are effectively described. The book is profusely illus- 

 trated with representations of apparatus, curves, technic, and subjects showing 

 effects of drugs. Gies. 



The chemistry of cattle feeding and dairsring. By J. Alan Murray, lec- 

 turer in agric. chemistry, Univ. Coli., Reading, Eng. Pp. 343 — 3^X5^; $1.75 

 net. Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. The author develops and explains the 

 fundamental principles underlying effective control of farming Operations. Al- 

 though intended mainly for use in Colleges of agriculture, the book is very 

 valuable for students of food chemistry, nutrition and dietetics. The four parts 

 treat successively of constituents of plants and animals, requirements of animals, 

 feeding stuffs, and dairying (milk and milk producta). Gies. 



Researches on irritability of plants. By J. C. Böse, professor, Presidency 

 Coli., Calcutta. Pp. 376 — 3^ X 6^ ; $2.50 net. Longmans, Green and Co., 

 London, 1913. In this work, dealing with bis researches on the irritability of 

 plants, the author introduced new methods by which the scope of his investiga- 

 tion was enlarged and high degrees of accuracy attained. These procedures 

 are fully described and illustrated. " The establishment of the unity of respon- 

 sive reactions in the plant and animal, which is the subject of this work, will be 

 found highly significant, since it is only by the study of the simpler phenomena 

 of irritability in the vegetal organisms that we can ever expect to elucidate the 

 more complex physiological reactions in the animal tissues." The book is 

 divided into twenty seven chapters; it contains 190 illustrations, chiefly curves 

 showing effects. The special chemical chapters relate to effects of different 

 gases on excitability of Mimosa and to effects of chemical agents on the auto- 

 matic pulsation of Desdemodium gyrans. Gies. 



The essentials of chemical physiology, for the use of students. By W. D. 



Halliburton, prof. of physiology, King's Coli., London. 8th ed. Pp. 324 — 4 X 

 614 ; $1.50. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1914. Continues to hold its 

 place as one of the most uscful and reliable laboratory manualsl in physiol. 

 chemistry. Gies. 



A textbook of experimental physiology for students of medicine. By 

 N. H. Alcock and F. O'B. Ellison, St Mary's Hosp. Med. Seh., Univ. of London. 

 Pp. 139 — 4X7; $1.50. P. Blakiston's Son and Co., Phila., 1909. The preface 

 was written by Prof. E. H. Starling who cordially commends the book. The 

 fundamentals of mechanical physiology are clearly and effectively illustrated. 



Gies. 



Festschrift zum 25- Jährigen Gedenktage der Gründung der internation- 

 alen Physiologenkongresse. By H. J. Hamburger and Ernst Laqueur. Pp. 

 272 — 4 X 7- F. Deuticke, Wien, 1914. Historical data with a resume of the essen- 

 tials, in classified form, of the scientific proceedings of the first eight con- 

 gresses. Dedicated to the ninth congress at Groningen, 1913. Gies. 



