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may judge from the very general recognition its work has received in foreign 
countries, for some of which it has served as a model, and from the honors 
given to Professor Baird and his colleagues in this line of work at various 
times by foreign powers. The work which he inaugurated and so well es- 
tablished will live after him, for now the worth and value of both these 
scientific institutions, whose aims are to systematize the information regard- 
ing even the meanest item of human daily life, and of information bearing 
on that, is universally recognized to be of a character of the highest practical 
as well as scientific value. 
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We regard the appearance of a work like Haddon’s Practical Embryology 
as another evidence of the advance of medical learning and literature in the 
right direction. For, as is universally admitted, the more general biological 
instruction which enters into the mental make up of a medical man the bet- 
ter, for medicine is ‘ passing out of the regions of empiricism and rule-of- 
thumb treatment, or maltreatment,’ * and becoming a science. <A great step 
of progress has been made when a great text-book has been produced, and 
Mr. Haddon has placed medicine under a very great debt by the preparation 
of his admirable exposition of the science of embryology—such an important 
chapter of the biological text-book of 1887. His work deserves to come to 
the notice of every one who claims to know the animal body with any ap- 
proach to thoroughness, not in competition with the classic work of the won- 
derful F. M. Balfour, for that work is too special for any but the special 
embryologists, but for those who would understand this science without be- 
coming more than readers. We do not see how any one can fail to under- 
stand the clear treatment, and congratulate medical literature upon the ac- 
cession to its ranks of this admirable addition. 
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The Journal of Morphology has made its appearance from the hands 
of Ginn & Co., of Boston, long expected by the zéologists of this country 
as the only distinctively American magazine in this department not con- 
nected with some society or university as the official publication ; though not 
the only morphological journal, as we recall the Bulletin of the Cambridge 
Museum, the Transactions of the Connecticut Society, Biological Studies of 
Johns Hopkins Univ., and several others equally conspicuous. We are glad 
to welcome this new venture in scientific journalism, and trust it may receive 
sufficient patronage to establish it firmly and permanently. Its quality, if we 
may judge from the initial number, will make it a necessary journal where- 
ever morphological journals are necessary. Would they were more univer- 
sally so. Prof. Whitman has treated his readers to much of very great inter- 
est, and presented in the very highest style of the art, both as to the text and 
as to the execution of the plates. Without attempting, at this time, any analy- 
sis of the first number, we may say that it contains much that must interest 
any student of animal form and structure, and is a necessity to every worker. 
The second number is to appear in January, or as soon after as possible. 
——$ 
We are glad to acknowledge the receipt from Mr. John Sloan, of New 
Albany, Indiana, of a slide of Amphzpleura peleucida containing four speci- 
mens beautifully mounted, from 1. Aberdeen; 2. Moissac, France; 3. Erie 
Co., N. Y.; 4. Southern Indiana. 
* Prof. H. N. Martin in address at opening of new biological laboratory at Johns Hopkins Univ., Jan. 2, 1884. 
