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as in most others, leading the van. That such is desirable on other 
accounts, will not be questioned by those who shall be told that it is 
but very lately physiology forms more than incidentally a part of the 
medical pupil’s education: all the physiology he formerly got,—save 
what he resolutely sought and obtained for himself—was the misera- 
ble modicum forming a very small and uncertain portion of his anato- 
mical lectures! Within the last few years the scene has wholly 
changed ; and not only is it more specially insisted on and cultivated, 
but its attractions solicit the attention of students, many of whom 
possess an amount of this knowledge that would have made a pro- 
fessor thirty yearsago! It enjoys the enviable advantage of receiving 
much reflected light, and invokes the successful aid of nearly every 
other science, or some of their branches, especially chemistry, which 
itself may be considered as a science almost new, if we contrast the 
wretched, piebald, empirical cookery, that was honoured by that name 
not very long since. Again, to France and Germany we owe an un- 
payable debt of gratitude and utility, for redeeming the state of things 
just alluded to, and elevating chemistry into the glorious science it 
now is, meliorating the condition of man in all countries, and in every 
conceivable way adding to his knowledge, enlarging his intellects, 
subduing to his will and for his use the most “ gnarled and unwedge- 
able” materials in nature, heretofore wasted or neglected as worthless 
or impracticable: in fine, conferring advantages which are incalcula- 
ble by means that are infinite. 
Microscopic Illustrations of Living Objects, their Natural History, 
§c., §c. with researches concerning the most eligible methods of 
constructing Microscopes, and instructions for using them, by C. 
R. Goring, M.D. a new edition, emended and enlarged ; by An- 
drew Pritchard, M.R.S. 8vo, London, 1838, pp. 248, with 
many cuts and coloured figures. 
The “‘ Microscopic Illustrations” were first published in 1829 ; 
the work is now reproduced in an amended form, with the addition 
of subsequent discoveries in the construction and uses of the micro- 
scope. The present edition opens with introductory remarks on the 
application of this wonderful instrument to the sciences, and an ac- 
count of its recent improvements. Then follow three descriptive 
chapters on the larva and pupa of a straw-coloured plumed gnat, 
the Corethra plumicornis of Stephens ; on the larva and chrysalis of 
a day-fly, the Ephemera marginata of Stephens ; and on the larva 
of a species of British hydrophilus, the H. caraboides of entomulo- 
