LITERARY NOTICES. 



Burkholder, J. F. The Anatomy of the Brain. A Study of the Human Brain 

 from the Brain of the Sheep. A Manual for Students in Medicine, Biol- 

 ogy and Psychology. With an introduction by Professor Henry H. Don- 

 aldson. 175 Pages, 32 Full Page Plates. Chicago : G. P. Engelhard 

 & Co., 1904. 

 This is a laboratory manual designed to meet the needs of those 

 for whom human material is not accessible in sufficient amount for 

 thorough demonstration purposes. It is well adapted to serve this 

 'purpose in medical schools and colleges, the text being clear, the fig- 

 ures good and the arrangement logical. There are unfortunately sev- 

 eral misprints, some of serious nature, such as the confusion in the 

 designations of Plates VIII and IX. Plate IX is defective also in 

 that it does not show as clearly as such a dissection should show the 

 ventricular boundaries. On the whole, however, the work is very 

 well done and the book deserves a wide circulation. It should do 

 much toward moderizing the instruction on the nervous system, 

 both in medical schools and colleges. c. j. h. 



Smith, G. Elliot. Studies in the Morphology of the Human Brain with 

 special Reference to that of the Egyptians. No. i. The Occipital Re- 

 gion. Records of the Egyptian Gov't. School of Medicine, Vol. 2, pp. 

 125-170, 2 plates and 47 text-figures. Cairo, 1904. 

 The ultimate purpose of this series of studies the author states to 

 be anthropological. And he adds, "The aim of these preliminary 

 morphological studies is to enable us to discriminate between important 

 and valueless features, between the kiud of information that is worth 

 collecting and that which it would be a mere waste of time to seek." 

 This, then, is the motive underlying the present elaborate comparative 

 study of the occipital region: "to learn the relative value of the 

 •data upon which our conclusions are to be based." In reaching his 

 conclusions regarding the homologies in this region (for which the 

 original memoir must be consulted) the author studied more than 600 

 hemispheres of various Primates of every genus and about 2000 human 

 hemispheres. The importance of the paper, however, lies not so 

 much in the fixing of particular homologies as in the sifting out of the 

 essential landmarks from the unimportant variations. c. j. h. 



