1870.] REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 97 



*' especially for closets and the open air. Burnett's fluid, for 

 " preserving moist bodies long." — (pp. 133-134). 



The work is eminently practical and suggestive. Perhaps it 

 would be more acceptable to the public if it had been more 

 dogmatic and positive in its generalizations. It is a valuable 

 accumulation of facts carefully chronicled, and we may hope that 

 some Liebig will arise to give us the great deductions which are 

 involved in this most important subject — which are still 

 " desiderata." J. B. E. 



Protoplasm ; or, Life, Matter, and Mind. By Lionel 

 S. Beale, M.D., F.K.S. 2nd Edition. London: Churchill, 1870. 

 — We have only to state in reference to this the second edition of 

 Dr. Beale's interesting book, that it is much enlarged and contains 

 a new section on the Mind. It is an able display of the author's 

 well-known views in reference to the early development of the 

 tissues, and embraces an attempt to apply these views to some of 

 the problems, half physical, half metaphysical, which of late years 

 have attracted the attention of thinking biologist. Whatever 

 opinions may be held as to the dispute between Dr. Beale and Mr. 

 Huxley, it is certain that the volume itself is full of interest both 

 to the microscopist and the ordinary educated man. — Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal. 



The Cell-Doctrine : Its History and Present State, 

 &Q. Jy James Tyson, M.D., Lecturer on Microscopy in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Lyndsay & Blakiston, 

 1870. — It is surprising how very little is known by medical men 

 generally of the arguments for and against the cell-doctrine of 

 Schwann and Schleiden. Notwithstanding the admirable essay 

 published by Professor Huxley many years since in the ' Medico- 

 Chirurgical Review,' and the numerous fine memoiis which Dr. 

 Beale has given from time to time, it is still a fact that very few 

 know how the question as to the mode of origin of the tissues 

 now stands. It was to meet this want, and, at the same time, to 

 help to promulgate Dr. Beale' s views, that the author of the pre- 

 sent volume prepared this treatise. — Monthly Micro. Journal. 



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