210 Literary Notices. 



dissimilarity between the right than the left sides of the brain in blacks and 

 whites. 



For Dr. Bean's interpretation of the psychological significance of his results, 

 the reader is referred to the original. 



G. ELLIOT SMITH. 



Guyer, Michael F. Animal Micrology. Practical Exercises in Microscopical Methods. University 

 of Chicago Press. 1906. 240 pp. $1.75 net. 



This work is intended as a laboratory manual in microscopic anatomy and embry- 

 ology for college classes. While the work is much more complete than the pam- 

 phlets of laboratory outlines usually furnished to the histology classes of the medical 

 schools, it is by no means designed to replace the larger standard works of reference 

 on the microscope and microscopical methods. It does present in very clear form 

 a judicious selection of methods, including an excellent untechnical account of 

 the microscope and its optical principles, adequate for the undergraduate course 

 in histology. The author has also succeeded very well in his attempt to include the 

 minor cautions (usually omitted from the manuals on methods) necessary to enable 

 the beginner to avoid failure or correct it. In an appendix is given an extensive 

 table of the more important tissues and an approved method of preparation for » 

 each. The nervous tissues have not been emphasized in this book, for they are 

 adequately treated in Hardesty's "Neurological Technique," though the neuro- 

 logical methods necessary in a course in general histology are briefly given. 



c. J. H. 



BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. 



Edinger, L. Ueber das Gehirn von Myxine glutinosa. Aus dem Anghang zu den Abhandlungen 

 der Konig. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften vom Jahre 1906. Berlin. 1906. 



Terry, Robert J. The nasal skeleton of Amblystoma punctatum (Linn.). Reprinted from Transac. 

 Acad. Sci. of St. Louis, Vol. 16, No. 5. 1906. 



Wright, Ramsay. An early anadidymus of the chick. Reprinted from Trans. Roy. Soc, Canada, 

 Second Series, Vol. 12, Section 4. 1906. 



Dieulafe, Leon. Morphology and embryology of the nasal fossa of vertebrates. Translated by 

 Hanau W. Loeb, St. Louis, ^.eprinted from Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. 

 1906. 



Peters, Amos W. Chemical studies on the cell and its medium. Parti. Methods for the study of 

 liquid culture media. Reprinted from Am. Jour, of Physiology, Vol. 17, No. 5. 1907. 



Tower, W. L. An investigation of evolution in chrysomelid beetles of the genus Leptinotarsa. 

 Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, No. 48. 1906. 



Linton, Edwin. Note on the habits of Fierasfer afBnis. Am. Nat., VoL 41, No. 481. 1907. 



Wilder, B. G. Anatomic nomenclature: an open letter to Professor Lewellys F. Barker. Re- 

 printed from Science, N. S., Vol. 24, pp. 559-560, Nov. 2, 1906; also the same reprinted from 

 American Medicine, N. S., Vol. I, Nov., 1906, p. 459. 



Neuropathological Papers from the Harvard University Medical School. 1905. 



Correction. — In the last number, in the List of Books and Pamphlets Received, B. G. Wilder's 

 paper, "Some Linguistic Principles,'' etc., should have been credited to the American Philological 

 Association. 



