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Art. IX.—Reviews and Records in Anatomy and Physiology ; 
by Watpo I. Burnett. 
1. Traité sur le venin de la Vipére, par Fontana. Florence, 1782. 
p. 229. 
2, Handbuch der Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, von G. Vau- 
ENTIN. Berlin, - p 20o. 
. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen ueber die Uebereinstimmung in der 
Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen, von THos. 
CHWANN. Berlin, 1839. p. 165. 
4. On the Minute Structure and Movements of Voluntary Muscle. By 
Wm. Bowman, in the Philos. Transact., London, 1840, pt. I, p. 457, 
—also, by the same, Articles, Muscle, and Muscular Action, in 
Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology. 1842. 
5. On Fibre. By Martin Barry, M.D., &c., in the Philos. Transact. 
London, 1842, pt. I, p. 89,--also, by the same, Neue Untersuchun- 
gen tuber die schraubenformige Beschaffenheit der Elementarfasern 
der Muskeln, nebst Beobachtungen iiber die muskulése Natur der 
Flimmerhdschen, in Miller’s Arch., 1850, p. 529 ;--and, On Animal 
and Vegetable Fibre, as originally composed of twin Spiral filaments, 
in which every other structure has its origin; in the Edinb. New Phil. 
Jour., Oct., 1853, p. 317. 
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nals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., ili, 1849, p. 109. 
7. Recherches sur la Formation des Muscles dans les Animaux Verte- 
brés, et sur la structure de la fibre musculaire en général dans les 
diverses classes d’animauz; par M. le Docteur Lezerr, in the Ann. 
des Sci. Nat., xi, 1849, p. 349. 
8. Mikroskopische Anatomie, §c.; von Dr. A. Konuxer. Leipzig, 
1850, Bd. Il, erste Halfte, p. 199. 
Ar this late period of histological research it may seem indeed 
@ superfluous task to pass in review a subject apparently so well 
understood as that of the minute and ultimate structure of Mus- 
cular Tissue. But the truth is, that on this, as with most other 
subjects in microscopy, the advent of new observers, or the re- 
appearance of old ones, in the field of research, bring with them 
the prestige of hitherto undiscovered facts and new truths, and 
So the old land-marks and positions laid down by earlier but 
by no means less able, faithful, and accurate observers, seem likely 
to be disturbed. 
We do not propose here to enter upon any formal discussion of 
the historical relations of the doctrines advanced hitherto upon 
this subject. We desire to pass in review what we understand 
to be the leading features of the histology of this tissue, and 
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