156 THE MICROSCOPE. 
1810. For some years he resided in Newfoundland and Lower Canada, 
being engaged in mercantile and later in farming pursuits. Jn 1838 
he resided in Alabama for six months, returning to England in 1839, 
and in 1844 visited Jamaica for the purpose of studying the natural 
history of that island. From 1852 to the time of his death he was a 
resident of St. Marychurch, Devonshire. Mr. Gosse was a voluminous 
writer, having published, according to a writer in the Canadian Ento- 
mologist, about forty books, and upwards of fifty papers in the proceed - 
ings of the Royal Society. ‘‘For some years,’ says Mr. Thos. W. 
Fyles in the journal cited, “he was engaged in preparing works for 
the S. P.C. K.. After that he devoted himself to the study of the 
British Rotifera. In 1856 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
Society. He was an indefatigable worker, usually in his study by 
four o’clock in the summer, and by six o’clock in the winter, and pro- 
duced on the average two works in the year.” Mr. Gosse was, per- 
haps, best known to Americans from his work, in connection with 
Mr. Hudson in the Rotifera, and his “‘ Evenings at the Microscope.” 
BOOK VRE V iE: Wiss 
Merrcxk’s INDEX OF FINE CHEMICALS AND DRUGS FOR THE MATERIA MEDICA 
AND THE Arts. E. Merck, Darmstadt, Germany. New York: 73 
William Street. 
This is the first American edition issued by this well-known 
chemist, and comprises ‘‘ a summary of whatever chemical products 
are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or tech- 
nology.” This index will be found useful not only to chemists and 
physicians, but to all who make use of chemicals and reagents to any 
extent. 
A Heautny Bopy. A text-book on Anatomy, Physiology. Hygiene, Alcohol 
and Narcotics. By Charles H. Stowell, M. D., Professor of Histology 
and Microscopy, University of Michigan. Clcth, pp. 7-215. John C. 
Buckbee & Co., Chicago. 
This little work is intended for use in intermediate grades in 
public and private schools, and relates in a simple and clear manner 
the more important facts in physiology. The illustrations—original 
with the author—are in keeping with the text, and, being largely dia- 
grammatic, cannot fail to elucidate that which might seem obscure. 
The author has seen fit to give particular attention to the effects of 
alcohol and tobacco on the system; and although he states in the 
preface that ‘‘in this respect no statement has been made that is not 
capable of positive proof,’ we think that, as applied by him, they 
could not be proven. Extreme and rare effects of the poisons are 
made to appear as a necessary concomitant of even moderate indul- 
