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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 



[Sept. 1881. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Student's Manual of Histology, for 

 the use of Students, Practitioners and 

 Microscopists. By Chas. H. Stowell, 

 M.D,, Assistant Professor of Physiology 

 and Histology, and the Instructor in the 

 Physiological Laboratory of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. Illustrated by one 

 hundred and ninety-two engravings. 

 (Pp. 290). Detroit : Geo. S. Davis. 1881. 



The matter of this book is well arranged, 

 and the information concisely given. It is 

 a pleasure to find a work on histology so 

 completely devoid of unnecessary details 

 concerning the technical processes of pre- 

 paring and examining tissues. It is just 

 possible that some additional instruc- 

 tion in this connection, would enhance 

 the value of the book to beginners, 

 but if the author has committed an 

 error in this respect, he has surely erred 

 in the right direction. In the Preface, he 

 states that : " Those methods are given 

 which are most fa.miliar and which have 

 proved the most satisfactory in our hands." 

 If all writers would follow such a rule, not 

 only would the student find less to con- 

 fuse him in a multiplicity of processes 

 from which to choose, but he would also 

 be relieved of many disappointments from 

 experiments with inferior or half-tried me- 

 thods. 



The different animal tissues are very 

 clearly described, with the aid of nume- 

 rous illustrations, and when authorities 

 differ in their views, both sides of the sub- 

 ject are fairly presented. Prof. Stowell 

 inclines to the opinion that the red blood- 

 corpuscle possesses a nucleus, but he adds 

 that " such is not the generally accepted 

 view." In one place, he remarks that the 

 nucleus of a cell is derived from the nucleo- 

 lus, but this assertion may require confir- 

 mation before it can be accepted in all 

 confidence. 



We are also inclined to believed that 

 the structure of the cilia of ciliated epithe- 

 Itum is far less simple than would be in- 

 ferred from the statement that : " These 

 cilia are but prolongations of the fine pro- 

 toplasmic filaments, — the intra-cellular fi- 

 brils — through the base of the cell." It 

 will be seen from this quotation, that the 

 author adopts the opinions of Klein, 

 Heitzmann and others, concerning an in- 

 tra nuclear and intra-cellular, net-work. 



The book is well printed, neatly bound, 

 and has a good index. 



Exchanges. 



[Exchanges are inserted in this column without 

 charge. They will be strictly limited to mounted 

 objects, and material for mounting.] 



Well-mounted Histological and Pathological slides 

 in exchange for other first-cIass slides. 

 W. H. Bates, M.D., 184 Remsen St. Brooklyn, N. Y, 



Wauled — first-class prepared and crude material, or 

 mounted objects, in exchange for diatoms in situ or 

 other first-class crude material, or for mounted objects. 

 M. A. BOOTH, Longmeadow, Mass. 



Wanted — Human Muscle with Trichina, in ex- 

 change for well-mounted slides of vegetable drugs. 

 OTTO A. WALL, M. D., 

 1027 St. Ange Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



Niagara River Filterings for mounted slides. 



H. POOLE, Bufialo, N. Y. 



Wanted — good gatherings of Diatoms, fossil or re- 

 cent, especially of test forms. Liberal exchange in fine 

 slides ; prepared or rough material. Lists exchanged. 



C. L. PETICOLAS, 635 8th Street, Richmond,Va. 



Section of Brain, stained, showing Tubercular Men- 

 ingites ; also Carcinoma Cerebri. Please send list. 

 L. BREWER HALL, M. D.,27 South i6th Street. 



Good, uncleaned Diatomaceous material containing 

 A rachnoidiscus^ Heliopelta^ Pleurosig7na, Isikmia, 

 Triceratium^ Surirella gemma and Terpsinooe 

 m.usica wanted, in exchange for well-mounted slides 

 of arranged diatoms, etc., or cash. 



DANIEL G. FORT, Oswego, N. Y. 



Well-mounted Histological and Pathological slides, 

 in exchange for oCci^r first-class slides. 



LEWIS M. EASTMAN, M. D., 

 349 Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Well-mounted diatoms, in exchange for any ■well- 

 mounted slides or material, etc. 



W. H. CURTIS, Haverhill, Mass. 



For exchange : Mounted thin sections of whale- 

 bone, soapstone, serpentine, albite, feldspar, etc.; 

 also opaque mounts of several very beautiful fossil- 

 iferous limestones. 



Rev. E. A. PERRY, Quincy, Mass. 



Slides of hair of Tarantula., very curious ; also 

 crystalline deposits from urine, to exchange for well- 

 mounted slides. S. E. STILES, M. D., 



log Cumberland St., Brooklyn, N. Y, 



Fine injected specimens of kidney, tongue and 

 liver, also very fine slides of human tooth, prepared 

 according to the method of Dr. Bodecker, showing 

 the protoplasmic net-work between the dentinal can- 

 aliculi, in exchange for first-class histological and 

 pathological slides, or other good specimens. 



J. L. WILLIAMS, North Vassalboro, Me. 



Well-mounted, typical Pathological and injected 

 Histological preparations, in exchange for other well- 

 mounted slides, Diatoms, Algae and Fungi preferred. 

 HENRY FROEHLING, 

 59 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 



