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think in the day's work? It can only seem somewhat stränge that three large 

 German editions and seven years were required before its first issue in the 

 tongue of Thomas Graham and the brilHant modern group of English-speaking 

 coUoid-chemists. Wolfgang Ostwald's writings represent in colloid-chem. what 

 those of Charles Gerhart represent in organic, Justus Liebig in agricultural, and 

 Wilhelm Ostwald in physical chemistry." 



Physiological Abstracts. Issued by the Physiol. Soc. (Gr. Britain and Ire- 

 land), with the co-operation of the Amer. Physiol. Soc; also of the Amer. Soc. 

 for Exper. Pathol., Amer. Pharmacol. Soc., Amer. Soc. of Biol. Chemists, Bio- 

 logisk Selskab of Copenhagen, Carnegie Inst'n of Washington, Chem. Soc. (Gr. 

 Britain and Ireland), Russian Biol. Soc; also of Archiv, di Fisiol. (Prof. Fano), 

 Archiv. Italiennes de Physiol. (Prof. Aducco), Jour. de Physiol. (Prof. Dastre) ; 

 also of Prof's Arthus (Switz.), Boldyreff (Russia), Hamburger (Holland), 

 Krogh (Denmark), Overton (Sweden), Torup (Norway), Zwaardemaker (Hol- 

 land). Abstractors: W. M. Bayhss, F. G. Benedict, T. G. Brown, R. Brinkman, 

 G. A. Buckmaster, F. J. J. Buytendijk, H. W. Bywaters, Mrs. G. D. Cathcart, 

 IVm. J. des, T. Lewis, Keith Lucas, W. Mair, E. Mellanby, Mrs. E. Mellanby, 

 Otto Rosenheim, C. S. Sherrington, S. B. Schryver, W. L. Symes, S. Tait, W. H. 

 Thompson, G. S. Walpole. Edited by W. D. Halliburton, prof. of physiol., 

 King's Coli., London. H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd., London, W. C. Monthly: 

 Three Shillings net; annual subscrip., 25s. net, post free. Vol. I, No. i (April), 

 pp. 36. — A publication that promises to do for physiol., among English-speaking 

 physiologists, what Chemical Abstracts has accomplished for chem. among 

 chemists whose mother tongue is English. The term "physiological," in the 

 title, is " used in its wide sense, and will include the important papers in alHed 

 Sciences which have physiol. bearings." The abstracts in the first number are 

 grouped under the following headings : general, physical and ehem., muscle and 

 nerve, respiration, circulation, aliment. canal, inter. secretions, metabolism, devel. 

 and growth, special senses, psychol., pharmacol. and toxicol., pathol. " The lit- 

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 in the first number, 25 pertain to papers published in the U. S. Subscriptions 

 and abstracts sent to the Biochemical Bulletin will be forwarded promptly 

 to Prof. Halliburton. 



Practica! physiological chemistry. By P. B. Hawk, prof. of physiol. chem. 

 and toxicol., Jefif. Med. Coli., Phila. Fifth ed., revised and enlarged; with 

 numerous illustr. Pp. 638 — 754 x 4^ ; $2.50 net. — Continues to hold its unchal- 

 lenged Position as the best of the manuals " designed for use in courses in prac- 

 tical physiol. chem. in schools of med. and of science." This edition has been 

 thoroly revised and in part rewritten. There are five new chapters: On nucleic 

 acids and nucleoproteins, gastric analysis, intestinal digestion, blood analysis, 

 metabolism. The sections on quantitative procedures have been extended and 

 brought up-to-date. 



Addisonia. Vol. I, No. i: Mar., 1916. Pp. 20; colored plates 10. Pub- 

 lished quarterly by the N. Y. Botanical Garden, from the proceeds of the Addi- 

 son Brown Fund — a bequest by the late Judge Addison Brown. Preparation 

 and publication in charge of Dr. J. H. Barnhart, bibliog., and G. V. Nash, head 

 gardener. Subscrip. price, $10.00 per vol. — Colored illustrations and populär 

 descriptions of plants. 



