THE AMERICAN SCIENCE SERIES. 



The principal 3 of the scries are to supply the lack — in 



ynme subjects verj -of authoritative book mci- 



pies are, so far as practicable, illustrated by familiar Ana: 

 facts, and also to supply the other lack that the advance of 

 ence perennially en oks which at least do not 



contradict the latest generalizations. The scheme mati- 



cally outlines the field of Science, as the term is usually em- 

 ployed with reference to ral ed . and includes 

 Advanced Courses for maturer college students, Brii 

 Cow ners in school or college, and E] 

 COURSES for the youngest classes. The I s are not 

 mt : abridgments of the lai irks, but, with perhaps a 

 Bingle exception, are much less technical in si .i more 

 elementary in method. While somewhat narrower in r. 

 of topics, they give equal emphasis to controlling principles. 

 The following books in this series are already published* 



THE HUMAN BODY. By H. NEWELL MARTIN, Professor in 



the Johns Hopkins University. 

 Advanced Course. Svo. 655 pp. 



Designed to impart the kind and amount of knowledge every 

 educated person should p of the structure a 



and the conditions of healthy working of the human b 

 While intelligible to th ' r. it i- 



Ciently minute in details to meet the requirem. 

 who arc not making humai 

 special advanced study. .' 

 an appen 

 this will be 



From the Chicago Tri fho follows him thn 



to the end of the book will I on the su 



modern physiology in it- .aires than most of the medical 



practitioners who rest on the in comparatively an- 



tiquated text books, and will, if ; nent 



and powers of discrimination, not be in y confused by state- 



ments of dubious questions or conflicting views." 



