June io, 1922] 



NATURE 



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I mi bridge is shown by an Institution Book to have 



11 appointed a rector in 1673 ; a visitation of 1677 



■es that he was ordained priest at Norwich in 1672 ; 



Bishop's Register there states that this ordinand 



- B.A. of Jesus College ; by this he can be safely 



Identified, and the Jesus books give his parentage and 



birthplace. 



Naturally not many details can be given even when 

 available of most of the persons named in the book. 

 The great majority entered the Church ; and the Re- 

 formation, the Commonwealth, and the Restoration 

 figure largely in the doings of the Cambridge graduates. 

 But other professions are represented, such as physicians 

 and lawyers, and more rarely statesmen and diplomats. 

 Occasionally careers ended in the stake, the block, or 

 in simple outlawry. Amongst names in the present 

 volume that will interest meh of science are William 

 Croone, in memory of whom was founded the Croonian 

 lecture ; Isaac Barrow, " famous as a mathematician, 

 as Greek and Latin scholar, and above all as a 

 theologian " ; Peter Barwicke, Censor of the R.C.P., 

 one of the few doctors who worked through the Plague 

 of London ; Licius Bomelius, physician, astrologer, 

 and magician to the Czar, who died in prison ; and 

 Henry Cavendish, chemist, physicist, and mathe- 

 matician, who left a fortune of more than a million. 

 It is greatly to be hoped that Part I. of this work will 

 receive sufficient support to enable Part II. (i 752-1900) 

 to be published. 



Catalogue of 1068 " Intermediate " Stars situated between 



S/° and 63° South Declination for the Equinox igoo : 



From Observations made at the Sydney Observatory , 



New South Wales, Australia, during the Years igiS- 



igig, under the Direction of Prof. W . Ernest Cooke. 



Pp. vii + 29. (Sydney: W. A. GuUick, 1921.) 



Somewhat novel lines have been adopted in this 



catalogue. Prof. W. E. Cooke has endeavoured to 



follow Hterally the resolutions of the Paris Astrographic 



Congress of 1909, which divided the stars to be observed 



into three classes — Fundamental, Intermediate, and 



Reference — the second class being deduced from the 



first by differential methods, and in turn serving as 



standards for the third class, which are to be used to 



give co-ordinates on the Astrographic Plates. The 



position of the Fundamental stars in the zone were 



taken from the Cape Catalogue, 1900, using the proper 



motions given there. The new Catalogue reproduces 



their assumed places with mean discordances of o-ooi* 



and 0-02". The probable error of a catalogued position 



is found to be + o-oo6* sec 5, and ± o'i3". 



Collimation errors and errors of division are determined 

 in the ordinary way, but all other corrections, including 

 the instrumental ones and those due to clock error, 

 precession, nutation, and aberration, are applied by 

 differential formulae described in Mon. Not. R.A.S., 

 vol. 79, No. I. It is claimed that this method facili- 

 tates the correction of the catalogue places for any 

 changes in the adopted places of the Fundamental 

 stars. The pivot errors of the circle are given, but 

 have not been applied, as the method of reduction 

 should eliminate them. The transits were observed 

 by the travelling-wire method, except for some faint 

 stars which were observed over fixed wires. A constant 

 correction was applied to these to reduce them to the 

 other system. A. C. D. C. 



NO. 2745, VOL. 109] 



The Serbian Epidemics of Typhus and Relapsing Fever 



in jgis : Their Origin, Course, and Preventive 



Measures employed for their Arrest. (An .Etiological 



and Preventive Study based on Records of British 



Military Sanitary Mission to Serbia, 1915.) By Col. 



William Hunter. (Reprinted from the Proceedings 



of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1919, vol. xiii.) 



(Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine.) 



Pp. 29-158. (London : John Bale, Sons, and 



Danielsson, Ltd., 1920.) 7^. dd. net. 



In this account of the Serbian epidemics of typhus and 



relapsing fever in 191 5, Col. William Hunter makes 



a very interesting and valuable contribution to the 



medical literature of the war. 



The R.A.M.C. Mission arrived in Serbia at the worst 

 period of an uncontrolled epidemic of lice -borne 

 diseases. Its principal task was not the supply of 

 extra clinical assistance, but the arrest of the epidemic 

 by administrative and sanitary measures. The chief 

 of these measures were the temporary cessation of 

 railway traffic, the suspension of leave from the army, 

 and the introduction of a widely applicable method of 

 disinfection. The author demonstrates clearly the 

 striking effect on the epidemic of both the cessation 

 and 'the resumption of the movements of people. 



By numerous charts and tables a large number of 

 statistics of considerable scientific interest is recorded, 

 and this, with the details given of the sanitary and 

 preventive measures adopted, will be of value to all 

 connected with the prevention of lice-borne and water- 

 borne diseases in dealing with any future outbreaks on 

 the Continent or elsewhere. ; 



Benign Stupors : A Study of a New Manic-Depressive 



Reaction Type. By Dr. A. Hoch. Pp. xii + 284. 



(Cambridge : At the University Press, 192 1.) 145. 



net. 

 August Hoch recognisea tne coniusion arising out of 

 the classification of certain functional psychoses as 

 Manic-Depressive Insanity ; he therefore set out to 

 show that the elation and depression (from which the 

 name has been derived) are of no more theoretical 

 importance than other moods which characterise the 

 group. The volume before us, edited by Dr. J. 

 MacCurdy after the death of Hoch, is designed to show 

 that the symptom-complex associated with apathy is 

 as distinct as that of mania, and the book introduces 

 the functional psychoses characterised by benign stupor. 



The essentials of the stupor reaction are (i) more or 

 less marked interference with activity ; (2) interference 

 with the intellectual processes ; (3) affectlessness ; 

 (4) negativism. These and other symptoms which 

 make up the clinical picture of the benign stupor are 

 discussed in great detail and illustrated by numerous 

 cases. Of particular interest is the peculiarity of the 

 ideational content in its preoccupation with the theme 

 of death, often to the complete exclusion of all other 

 ideas. 



A brief chapter is devoted to treatment, and stress is 

 laid on the importance of stimulating the patient to 

 exert as much effort as possible. The book is one of 

 the most valuable contributions of recent years to 

 psychiatric literature, and its editor is to be con- 

 gratulated on the success with which he has carried 

 out the task laid upon him. 



