Oct. 2 2, 1874J 



NATURE 



509 



Professor of Practical Physiology and Histology in the 

 Owens College, Manchester. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) — 

 Outlines of Aniiihi! Ph}>s!oh>c:\',vi\\h. engravings on wood, 

 by W. H. Allchin, M.B., mTR-CP., Assistant Physician 

 to the Westminster Hospital and Lecturer on Practical 

 Physiology, Histology, and Pathology in its Medical 

 School. (Churchill.) — NoliS of Di-nionstra/ions on Phy- 

 siolos;ical Cheiiiis/ry, by S. W. Moore, F.C.S., Joint De- 

 monstrator of Practical Physiology at St. George's Medical 

 School. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) This work is nearly 

 ready for publication. — The same publishers announce 

 T/id Pti/holoi^'ical Anatomy of the iVert'ons Centres, by 

 Edward Long Fox, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician to the 

 Bristol Royal Infirmary, with illustrations ; and a Text- 

 Book of Patholoi^ical Anatomy, by John Wyllie, M.D., 

 F.R.C.P.I'-., Lecturer on General Pathology at the School 

 of Medicine, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, lic. 



We are glad to see that Messrs. Churchill have in the 

 press a tifih and revised edition of Holden's well-known 

 work on Human OsteoU\!^y, comprising a Description of 

 the Bones, with Delineations of the Attachments of the 

 Muscles, &c. — The three following new works also belong 

 to the same publishers : — Prey's Manual of tJie Histoloi^y 

 and Hista Chemistry of Man, a Treatise on the Ele- 

 ments of Structure and Composition of the Human Body, 

 for the use of Practitioners and Students, largely illus- 

 trated with engravings on wood, translated by Arthur 

 E. J. Barker, 1. R. C.S.I. , and revised by the* author. — 'Phe 

 Student's Guide to Human Osteotomy, witlr numerous 

 liihographic plates, by William Warwick Wagstaffe, 

 F.R.C.S., Assistant Surgeon and Lecturer on Anatomy at 

 St. Thomas's Hospital. — The Studint's Guide to Praetieal 

 Histology, Histochemistry, and Fmbryoloi^y, with en- 

 gravings on wood ; by H. A. Rteves, F.R.C.S. Edin., 

 Assistant Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy at the 

 London Hospital. 



The only other book we notice in this branch of science 

 \-, 3^ wifi ^A\i\OTi. o{ Demonstrations of Anato.iiy, being a 

 Guide to the Knowledge of the Human Body by Dissec- 

 tion, by George Viner Ellis, Professor of Anatomy in 

 University College, London, with 248 engravings on 

 wood. The number of illustrations has been largely 

 added to in thi; e lit'on, and many of the new woodcuts 

 are reduced copies of the plates in the author's work, 

 " Illustrations of Dissections." (Smith, Elder, and Co.) 



In Geography and Tr.wels, probably the works most 

 looked for are 'Phe Last fournals of Dr. Livingstone, 

 in Eastern Afriea, from 1 865 to his Death, continued by 

 a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, taken 

 down from the mouth of his faithful servants Chuma and 

 Susi, edited by Rev. Horace Waller, F.R.G.S., Rector of 

 Twywell, Northampton, with a map prepared on the 

 spot by the author, and illustrations from his sketches. 

 (Murray) ; and Sir Samuel Baker's new book, which is 

 entitledj Lsmailia, a Narrative of the E.xpedition to 

 Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 

 organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, with maps, 

 portraits, and upwards of fifty full-page illustrations 

 by Zwecker and Durand (Macmillan.) 



Messrs. Sampson Low, as usual, are to the fore in 

 books of travels. We give the titles and some particu- 

 lars of seven of them : — Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in 

 the Russian Provinces of Central Asia and the Khanates 

 of Bokhara and Kokand, by Eugene Schuyler, Secre- 

 tary of American Legation, St. Petersburg. This book 

 will be profusely illustrated.- The Straits of Malaica, 

 Indo-China, and China, or Ten Years' Travels, Adven- 

 tures, and Residence Abroad, with upwards of sixty 

 woodcuts from the author's own photographs and sketches, 

 by J. Thompson, F.R.G.S., author of " Illustrations of 

 China and its People." This work contains a narrative 

 of the writer's personal experience and adventures in the 

 Straits of Malacca, Siam, Cambodia, Cochin-china, and 

 China, illustrated with over sixty wood engravings from 



the author's sketches and photographs. A long residence 

 in the Straits of Malacca enabled the author to visit some 

 of the native states, and to give an account of our impor- 

 tant colonial possessions in that quarter of the globe, as 

 also of his personal intercourse with the native Malay 

 rulers, and his estimate of the value of the China- 

 man and of "Chinese labour in a tropical region. — 

 The Second North German Polar Expedition in the 

 years 1S69 — 70, of the ships Ger mania and Hansa, 

 under command of Capt. Koldeway, edited and con- 

 densed by H. W. Bates, Esq., of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, and translated by Louis Mercier, M.A. ((Jxon.) 

 The narrative portion of this important work will be full 

 of interest and adventure in the ice-fields ; and, in 

 addition to much matter of great scientific value, will 

 give a graphic account of the hardships and sufferings of 

 the crew of the Hansa after the crushing of that ship 

 in the ice. — Warburton's Journey across Australia, an 

 account of tire Exploring Expedition sent out by Messrs. 

 Elder and Hughes, under the command of Colonel Egerton 

 Warburton, giving a full account of his perilous journey 

 from the centre to Roebourne, Western Australia, with 

 illustrations and a map, edited, with an Introductory 

 Chapter, by H. W. Bates, Esq., of the Royal Geographical 

 Society. — Captain Tyson's Arctic Adventures ; Arctic 

 Experiences, containing Captain George E. Tyson's 

 Wonderful Drift on the Ice-FIoe, a history of the Polaris 

 Expedition, the cruise of the Tigress, and Rescue of the 

 Polaris Survivors, to which is added a General Arctic 

 Chronology, edited by E. Vale Blake, with a map 

 and numerous illustrations. — Tlie Marvellous Country, 

 or Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, by Samuel 

 W. Cozzens, illustrated. — The Earth as Modified by 

 Human Action, by George P. Marsh, being a new 

 edition of " Man and Nature." 



Mr. Murray announces Six Months among the Palm 

 Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich 

 /f/(j«( A, by Isabella Bird, author of " The Englishwoman 

 in America," with illustrations. 



Messrs. Triibner have nearly ready A Peep at Mexico, 

 Narrative of a Journey across the Republic from the 

 Pacific to the Gulf, in December 1873, and January 

 1874, by J. L. Geiger, F.R.G.S, with four maps and 

 forty-five original photographs. 



In Medicine, iiic, the announcements are very nume- 

 rous ; we give the more important. Messrs. Longmans 

 have in the press A PU'ctionary of Medicine, edited by 

 Richard Ouain, M.D., F.R.S., assisted by numerous 

 eminent writers. 



Messrs. Charles Griffin will publish very shortly Out- 

 lines of the Science ami Practice of AL-dicinc; a Hand- 

 book for Students, by William Aitken, M.D., F.R.S. 



p'rom Messrs. Churchill we receive notice of the follow- 

 ing forthcoming books among a long list of others, viz. : — 

 Air, Water, and Sewage, a Manual of Analysis for 

 Medical Officers of Health, &.C., by Francis Sutton, 

 F.G.S., and William Thorp, B.Sc, F.C.S.— .-i Handy- 

 Book of Forensic Hfcdicine and Toxicology, with numerous 

 wood engravings, by W. Bathurst Woodman, M.D. St. 

 And,, Assistant Physician and Lecturer oir Physiology at 

 the London Hospital, &c., and C. Meymott Tidy, M.A., 

 M.B., Medical Officer of Health and Food Analyst for 

 Islington. — Experimental Investigation of the Action 

 of Medicines, a Handbook of Practical Pharmacology, 

 with engravings, by T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., D.Sc, 

 Lecturer on Materia Medica in the Medical College 

 of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. — The Diseases of Tro- 

 pical Climates and their Treatment, with Hints for 

 the Preservation of Health in the Tropics, by J. A. B. 

 Horton, M.D. Edin., F.R.G.S., Staff-Assistant-Surgeon 

 of the Army Medical Department. — The Face, Mouth, 

 and Throat, the Surgical Treatment of their Diseases, 

 Injuries, and Deformities, with engravings on wood, 

 by Francis Mason, F.R.C.S., Senior Assistant Sur- 



