X Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



The discussion of the form of the nerve cell is an interesting at- 

 tempt to graft the results of the new methods upon the terminology of 

 the original edition. The paragraph on neuroglia has been consider- 

 ably modified but the spider cell of the first edition has been identified 

 among the findings of the Golgi method. Three stages in these ele- 

 ments are described : (a) cells with short, thickened, moss-like proto- 

 plasmic processes, dendritic or branching dichotomously and possessing 

 also thick vascular attachments ; (b) long and exceedingly fine un- 

 branched fibrils radiating from an obscurely marked central cell, also 

 (under certain conditions) showing vascular processes ; (c) transitional 

 forms with vascular processes, short dendritic branches, from which are 

 given off long delicate fibrils like those of the stellate cells, and often 

 distinctly monihform. 



Very extensive additions and interpolations occur in the remainder 

 of the chapter devoted to the lamination of the cortex and this portion 

 has been enriched by numerous illustrations from silver preparations. 



In the clinical chapters little change of importance is noted. A 

 section is devoted to the description of a reaction time instrument and 

 some tables and details have been omitted. Kleptomania, dipsoma- 

 nia, erotomania and- obsessions are given special headings and para- 

 graphs have been added treating of paranoia, the neuropathic basis, 

 folic a deux, etc. Under general paralysis a figure is added illustrating 

 the nuclei of the third nerve and also a section devoted to the signifi- 

 cance of pupillary anomalies. 



In the pathological section the author has seen no reason to change 

 his views as to the importance of the scavenger cell. The book has 

 retained all the peculiarities which have proven so suggestive in the 

 first edition, while the material added has been so skilfully incorporated 

 as not materially to mipair the unity of the work. c. l. h. 



Antivivisection Discussion. 



The country is being flooded with literature prepared under the 

 auspices of the American Humane Society denouncing the cruelties of 

 scientific men. These publications boldly charge the leading scientific 

 men of this country and especially the members of the National Acad- 

 emy of Science with mendacity and disgraceful artifice. 



We do not propose to enter upon this discussion. Few intelligent 

 men are duped by such statements as that no substantial gains to the 

 heahng arts have accrued from experimentation upon animals. It may 

 be noticed, however, as a peculiar fact that the discussions put forth 

 by this so-called humane society are singularly violent and acerbid in 

 language and unscrupulous in the garbling of evidence so that one (like 



