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ductless glands in the Vertebrata, I have not the slightest doubt 

 as to the similarity of their functions, which is the elaboration 

 of the circulating fluid." This is dogmatic. Without j)ausing 

 to consider what is meant by the vague expression elaboration 

 of the blood, we would just remind Mr. Lowne : firstly, that the 

 follicular glands he describes bear a very remote resemblance to 

 either the spleen or the thyroid ; and secondly, that physiologists 

 are by no means decided as to what the ofiice of such bodies as the 

 lymjihatics, Payers glands, the tonsils, the supra-renals, thyroid 

 and thymus may really be. Absolutely we know nothing at all of 

 their fimctions. 



Mr. Lowne's account of the integument is full of interest ; and 

 though he would assume that it is developed in a manner different 

 to that of the ecderonic and enderonic layers of other invertebrates, 

 we fancy his facts lead to an ojiposite conclusion. We would raise 

 our voice against his introduction of a new terminology simply 

 applicable to one insect. We wish we had more space to explain 

 to our readers the many excellences of this work ; but we must 

 now conclude with hearty thanks to the author, and with our advice 

 to all who have a microscope to make the acquaintance of this 

 volume without delay. 



Untersuchungen zur normalen und Pathologischen Anatomie der Froschaut. 

 Von Herrn D. Eberth. Leipzig : Engelmann. — This is more a 

 work for the physician than the ordinary microscopist. It is an 

 effort on the part of the author to describe a series of microsco- 

 pical pathological researches. He has selected the skin of the 

 frog, and has recorded some interesting results as to the origin 

 of morbid growths. 



Handbuch der Lehre von den Geiveben des Menschen und der Thiere 

 Herausgegeben. Von Prof. Strieker. Leipzig : Engelmann. — 

 The first part of this work was briefly noticed in one of the early 

 numbers of our first volume. The second is now issued, and is 

 chiefly interesting from a paper of Herr von Eecklinghausen on 

 the Lymphatics. 



Das MiJiToskop und Seine Anivendung. Von Herrn H. Hager. Berlin : 

 Springer, 1869. — This volume is, we believe, thought a good deal 

 of in Germany. We cannot, however, give it much praise. It is 

 • too small, and its accounts of important matters too desultory to 

 admit of our recommending it to English readers, who have such 

 excellent treatises at their disposal. 



Der Bau des MenscMichen Korpers, etc. Von Dr. C. Aeby. Leipzig : 

 Vogel, 1869. — The first and second parts of this work have been 

 been issued. The book is chiefly an anatomical one ; its plan 

 being somewhat like that of the excellent treatise of Quatin and 

 Sharpey. Like the latter it includes an account of microscopic 

 structure ; but, unlike it, this account is of a very elementary and 

 unsatisfactory nature. 



