A Survey of National Trends in Biology. Ed- 

 ward J. V. K. Menge. xi + 156 pp. $2.00. The 

 Bruce Publishing Company. 1930. 



This is a series of lectures surveying national 

 trends in biology based upon replies to question- 

 naires sent to leading biologists of various nations. 

 The lectures were prepared for the National Uni- 

 versity of Cordoba and for the Sociedade de 

 Medicina e Cirurzia de Rio de Janeiro. 



The author gives a very brief account of the 

 development of the various fields of biology, 

 some of the outstanding present day theories, and 

 their effects upon our philosophical conceptions of 

 living organisms. The treatise has a decided 

 philosophical atmosphere and emphasizes the bar- 

 renness of the idea that a living organism is 

 nothing more than a series of chemico-physical 

 phenomena of the various elements of protoplasm 

 and of the morphological units of the organism. 

 It reads well and in interesting. 



C. L. PaRM ENTER. 



Reviewed 

 Augus 



t 2)^, 1931 



