REVIEW. 
Stricker’s Manual of Histology 
Tue third volume of the translation of Stricker’s histology 
completes this important work. The subjects comprised in 
this volume are the organs of sense and the uterine organs ; 
and it concludes with a chapter on the development of the 
simple tissues by Professor Stricker. As we have spoken 
pretty fully of the merits and defects of the other volumes, 
it may be sufficient to say that both are represented in this 
portion of the work. The special merits of Dr. Stricker’s 
plan certainly predominate in the chapters on the sense- 
organs, since few histologists who are not specialists could 
undertake these difficult themes. Of the elaborateness with 
which they are treated, it may give some notion if we state that 
no less than ten writers treat of the eye and its appendages. 
Professor Max Schultze’s admirable monograph on the retina 
(probably one of the last publications of that lamented 
histologist) will doubtless be classical, but that of Rollett on 
the cornea is quite worthy to stand beside it ; and we should 
especially recommend English histological students care- 
fully to work through the elaborate description of this 
structure, which has been, ever since Toynbee discovered the 
corneal corpuscles, so favorite an object with the German 
anatomists. It has certainly contributed far more than 
many more important organs to the progress of histolog 
both normal and pathological. 
The concluding chapter on development of tissues gives an 
account, necessarily condensed, of the formation of tissues 
as traced from early embryonic life. The chief moral which 
we feel inclined to draw from the caution with which Stricker 
expresses himself is thatitis very unsafe to found upon the 
relations of the embryonic layers, such wide generalisations in 
1 «Manual of Human and Comparative Histology.’ Edited by 8. Stricker. 
Vol. IIf. Translated by Henry Power. The New Sydenham Society. 
London, 18738. 
