Notices of New Books. 
1. Methods of Research in Microscopical Anatomy and Embry- 
ology. By CxHartes Or1ts Wuitman, M.A., Ph.D. (S. E. 
Cassino & Co., Boston, U.S. 1885.) 
This is a thoroughly trustworthy and ably written treatise. Dr. 
Whitman has had the widest experience in microscopical research ; 
he is, as is well known, himself an accomplished observer and mani- 
pulator, who has mastered, for the purpose of his own investigations, 
the most recent methods. His work is more especially valuable as 
giving a full account of the methods of research which have been 
experimentally arrived at by the zoologists of the Naples Zoological 
Station, where Dr. Whitman has spent some months. The con- 
tents of Dr. Whitman’s treatise are arranged in two parts, the first 
embracing methods of a more general nature, such as preservative 
fluids, dyes, macerating fluids, fixatives, mounting media, the micro- 
tome with its appurtenances, methods of embedding, &c.; the 
second including special applications of embryological, anatomical, 
and histological methods. In the appendix are described some 
methods of injection, museum methods, and formule for most of 
the important reagents, &c. 
2. The Microtomist’s Vade-mecum: a Handbook of the Methods 
of Microscopic Anatomy. By Arrnur Bories Ler. (London: 
J.& A. Churchill. 1885.) 
Mr. Lee’s book contains a valuabie and very extensive collection 
of recipes. The author says of it: ‘‘ The collection of formuls here 
brought together is, I believe, practically exhaustive; no process 
having any claim to scientific status having been rejected, nor any, I 
trust, unwittingly omitted. The inclusion of all of them,” he con- 
tinues, “‘is justified by the consideration that some one or other of 
them may perhaps serve, in some way that cannot now be foreseen, 
to suggest some new method of value.’’ In this we are entirely in 
accord with Mr. Lee. The description of methods is in some cases 
reduced to a rather small compass, and there is little attempt on the 
author’s part to state critically the relative value of the different 
staining fluids, embedding methods, &c., which he records. But 
that is quite consistent with the object of the book, which is to give 
an exhaustive series of references. We do not doubt that Mr. Lee’s 
