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BOOK REVIEWS. 



MiCROscorY. Reprints from Am. Naturalist; Dr. C. O. Whitman. 



Plant Chemistry, as Illustrated in the Production of Sugar from Sorghum, 

 by Helen De S. Abbott; reprint. 



Diet in Cancer. I. Full Text in Nine Cases. II. Theoretical Considera- 

 tions ; by Ephraim Cutter, A.M., M.D., L.L.D. ; reprint. 



Manual op Clinical Diagnosis, by Dr. Otto Seifert and Dr. Friedrich 

 Miiller. Third edition. Translated by William Buckingham, Canfield, 

 Am. M. D. (Berlin). New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. 



In this manual the authors have given in an epitomized form 

 the diflPerent methods of examination, as well as a convenient 

 collection of those data and figures which should always be familiar 

 to the physician and student. 



The material collected is difficult to remember, and is scattered 

 about in many works. Many of the articles are very short and 

 unsatisfactory, but answer well for the purpose in view. The 

 chapters on foods and the dose table are particularly well selected, 

 and make the little book one which should be on the table of every 

 physician, and in the pocket of every student. The translator has 

 given a very smoothly-reading rendition of the text. We note 

 several typographical errors, one of the worst of which is giving 

 2^^^p Q- in as the equivalent of the micro-millimeter. 



Microscopic Botany A manual of the Microscope in Vegetable Histology, 

 by Dr. Edward Strasburger; from the German by Rev. A. B. Hervey. 

 Boston : Samuel E. Cassino, 1887, pp. 382. 



We are glad to welcome Dr. Strasburger's "Kleine Botanische 

 Practicum" in its English dress. This work is already so well 

 known to students of botany, who read German, that we need only 

 refer to its merits by saying to others that no botanist who desires 

 to be thoroughly grounded in this subject can afford to be without 

 it, while every mici'oscopist who is interested in vegetable histology, 

 will find it the best hand-book to aid them in their work. The use 

 of the microscope, making of permanent preparations, methods of 

 study, and the various cell-elements which go to make up the plant 

 are clearly discussed and illustrated in the thirty-two lessons into 

 which the work is divided. In an appendix are placed the most 

 reliable stains and reagents, which will be found valuable, especially 

 to the beginner. Mr. Hervey has given an excellent translation, 

 and wisely omitted much verbiage with which the German original 

 is filled, and which, to the English reader at least, is irrelevant and 

 unessential. 



The book is gotten up in the publishers well-knovni elegant and 

 substantial style. 



