544 Books Receivcd [April-July 



An Introduction to the chemistry of plant products. By Paul Haas 

 (lecturer on chemistry, Royal Gardens, Kew) and T. G. Hill (reader in 

 vegetable physiology, Univ. of London). Pp. 401 — 4X7; $2.25 net. Long- 

 mans, Green and Co., 1913- 



Excellent discussion of the chemistry and biological significance of many 

 of the most important plant constituents. Besides extended treatment of carbo- 

 hydrates, lipins and proteins, chapters are devoted respectively to glucosides, 

 tannins, pigments, nitrogenous bases (alkaloids, ptomaines, purins), colloids and 

 enzymes. Methods of preparation, detection and quantitative determination are 

 numerous and well described. Good subject index. The most valuable recent 

 contribution of its kind to phyto-chemistry. Strongly recommended to biological 

 chemists generally — to botanists in particular. Gies. 



Practical physiological chemistry. By Sidney W. Cole, demonstrator of 

 physiology, Trinity College, Cambridge. Third edition. Pp. 230 — ^4 X 6j^ ; 7s. 

 6d. net. W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., Cambridge, Eng., 1913. 



Vary useful laboratory manual. Subject treated chiefly from static point 

 of view. Practical throughout. Methods well selected. Quantitative pro- 

 cedures given satisfactory attention. Special emphasis laid upon Folin's micro- 

 chemical methods of urinary analysis. Good index. See review by Walter 

 Jones, Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 1913, xxxv, p. 1064. Gies. 



Studies from the Rockef eller Inst, for Med. Research. Vol. XVHI ; 1914. 

 (60 reprints.) Vol XIX; 1914. (61 reprints.) 



Studies from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Inst. Vol. I ; 1912^-' 13. 

 (28 reprints.) 



Pellagra. First progress-report of the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Com- 

 miss. of the N. Y. Post-Grad. Med. Seh. and Hosp. By J. F. Siler, P. E. Gar- 

 rison and W. J. MacNeal, with the collab. of A. H. Jennings, W. V. King, V. C. 

 Myers, M. S. Fine, O. S. Hillman and others. Pp. 148 — 4 X 7- 



Arbeiten des medicinisch-chemischen Lab. der Kaiserlichen Universität 

 Moskau, 1912 and 1913. (5 reprints.) 



CoUected papers from the Research Lab. of Parke, Davis and Co., Detroit, 

 Mich. Vol. I; 1913. (30 reprints.) Vol. II; 1914. (22 reprints.) 



Collected studies from the Bureau of Laboratories, Dep't of Health, City 

 of N. Y. Dr. Wm. H. Park, director. Vol. VII; 1912-13. (55 papers, chiefly 

 reprints.) 



Carcinoma of the thyroid in the salmonoid fishes. By Harvey R. Gaylord 

 and Miliard C. Marsh, with the collab. of F. C. Busch and B. T. Simpson. 

 Pp. 524 — SJ4 X 7/4 (55 füll page plates). An investigation and experimental 

 study conducted jointly by the Gratwick Lab. of the State Inst, for the Study 

 of Malignant Diseases, Bufifalo, N. Y., and the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



E. Merck's Jahresbericht über Neuerungen auf den Gebieten der Pharma- 

 kotherapie und Pharmazie. Vol. XXVII ; 1913. Pp. 601 — 4 X 7- E. Merck, 

 Darmstadt, 1914. 



Coakley's Archives. Founded and edited by W. Byron Coakley. Vol i, 

 No. I (Apr., 1914). Pp. 27 — 4X6}i; $4.00 per vol. Published irregularly; 

 61 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. 



Collected reprints: Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Cor- 

 nell Univ. Med. Coli. (Ithaca, N .Y.). Series IV, 1913. (19 reprints.) 



