190 The Mickoscope. 



Prof. Burrill's presidential address on " Bacteria and Disease," which 

 has ah-eady appeared in the columns of this journal, and Dr. H. L, 

 Smith's " A Contribution to the Life-History of the Diatomacese,'' 

 with very artistic plates, which will bear most careful reading. Prof. 

 Rogers discusses " A Method of Dealing with the Question of Tem- 

 perature in the Comparison of Standards of Length," and Marshall 

 D. Ewell has two contributions studying centimeter-scale "A." Both 

 of these gentlemen write for the few. H. A. Weber and Thomas 

 Taylor continue the controversy of last year on butter -crystals, and 

 fm-nish two excellent plates in support of their views. The 

 other papers are devoted mostly to practical subjects, and contain 

 many new and valuable suggestions to the workers in Microscopy. 

 It makes a very creditable volume. 

 The Physician's Leisure Library. Detroit: Geo. S. Davis. 



Practical Bacteriology, by Thos. E. Satterthwaite, of New York, is 

 an effort to extend more widely an interest in this most important 

 branch of medicine. The author has made no special efforts in the 

 direction of originality of matter, but has introduced into the little 

 work short accounts of the material, apparatus and method of gen- 

 eral bacteriological work, gleaned from various sources. The limits 

 of the book precluded anything but a short introduction to bacteri- 

 ology and as such only can it be criticised. The author is an expert 

 technologist and has selected his material well. In the efforts to 

 condense, however, some of the chapters have been made decidedly 

 unsatisfactory, and would be but feeble guides to the beginner. The 

 low price of the book and the fact that it will reach many physicians 

 unacquainted with the first principles of bacteriology, will probably 

 stimulate some to more thorough study on points of importance. 

 The general appearance of the book is fair, but the proof-reading 

 was very poorly done. 



Report of the Committee on Disinfectants, presented at the Fourteentli 

 Annual Meeting of tlie American Public Health Association, held at Tor- 

 onto, Canada, October, 1886. Reprint. 



Contains information of value to every physician. 

 The New England Magazine, double number for April and May. 



Presents an atti'active variety of reading matter which will be 

 found of especial intei-est to every New Englander by birth or adop- 

 tion. 



A Case of Broncho-Pdlmonary Mycosis, by William F. Waugh, M. D. 



Reprint. 

 Proceedings op the Sanitary Conventions, held at Coldwater and Grand 



Rapids, Mich., 1886. 

 Baked Beans, a serio-humorous medical paper, bv Ephraim Cutter, A. M., 



M. D., New York: W. Kellogg. Reprint. 



