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has mentioned in the footnotes constitute but a tithe of those who have 
worked at this important subject. It seems to us that of all opinions 
on this subject, those of Dr. Handheld Jones, F.R.S , in his splendid 
memoir in the ‘ Phil. Trans.,’ are the most worthy of belief ; yet Dr. 
Hering does not appear to be acquainted with it. Dr. Beale’s opinions 
too are dismissed in a word or two. This is essentially unsatisfactory. 
The lungs, which are written upon by Franz Eilhard Schultze, are 
better done. The author has gone more carefully into his subject, and 
his opinions do not startle us so much as Hering’s do. Still we have 
the fault to find with his diagrams which must be experienced by 
every genuine student, viz. that they are too picture-like. We should 
venture to say that not one-tenth of them are actual copies of the 
specimens. In this we think foreign authors are much to blame. In 
a drawing of Beale’s, or Huxley’s, or any other English worker, we are 
introduced to exactly the specimen which was seen beneath the micro- 
scope. But most assuredly no student who is familiar with human 
microscopic anatomy will take the drawings which illustrate the 
greater part of this book as accurate representations of the object. 
We think too much cannot be said against this habit, for whenever a 
detail not present in the object is introduced into the picture, it is 
almost invariably something which bears on the author’s opinions. 
We therefore object most strongly to such figures as being anything 
but semi-diagramatic. We observe also in regard to this article 
that almost the only English author mentioned is Dr. Williams, who 
wrote the paper in Todd’s Cyclopaedia so many years since. 
The section devoted to the structure of the ovary and parovarium 
is a very good one. Herr W. Waldeyer has given us an able resume 
of the views of Henle, His, Klebs, Pfliiger, and others. He has entered, 
too, pretty largely into the comparative anatomy of the subject so far 
as it bears upon views of the human structure, and his style is clear 
and to the point. Indeed, we may say that this is one of the best 
articles in the volume. Among other points of interest is the addi- 
tional weight which the author gives to Pfliiger’s view with regard to 
the share taken by the follicular epithelium in the formation of the 
corpus luteum ; he being of opinion, contrary to Kolliker, that “ both 
elements of the follicular wall contribute to its formation.” Another 
important feature in this paper is the very elaborate bibliography 
which the author appends, which, although it partakes less or more of 
the character before referred to, nevertheless covers more than eight 
pages. 
Few of the other articles have very much import till we come to 
those upon the spinal chord by Herr J. Gerlach, and the brain of 
mammals by Herr Theodor Meynert. These two papers, by very 
eminent authorities, constitute considerably more than one-third and 
very nearly one-half of the entire volume. They are papers that 
redeem the character of the work, which would sink to comparative 
insignificance without them. And of these two, unquestionably that 
upon the brain is the best and most exact in the information it contains, 
and is most valuable not alone for the knowledge it sets forth, but for 
the excellent bibliographical list which it has appended to it. This, 
