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Studies in general physiology. 
THE APPEARANCE OF LoEB’s Studies in general physiology? should give new 
impetus to the already active research in regard to the factors which control vital 
phenomena. No one has emphasized more clearly the essential similarity existing 
between the protoplasms of the two kingdoms than has this writer, and the present 
work promises to be of great use to plant as well as to animal physiologists. 
These two volumes, of the Decennial Series of the University of Chicago, 
bring together in reprint the list of brilliant contributions which gave to the author 
his prestige in protoplasmic physiology. They consist of thirty-eight papers, 
published through various channels and in two languages, between the years 
1889 and 1902. These are arranged in the chronological order of their previous 
publication, beginning with those on tropisms and ending with those on artificial 
parthenogenesis and on the irritability of muscles. Some of them have been 
somewhat shortened by the omission of repetitions which are unnecessary in the 
collected series; those originally published in German have been excellently 
translated into English by Dr. Martin Fiscuer, and considerable additional 
light has been thrown upon certain points by appended footnotes bearing the date 
1903. 
The author and the physiological world as well are to be congratulated upon 
the attractive form of the publication. The volumes are printed upon a good 
quality of paper, and in type which is easily read. Illustration is by means of 
very clear figures in the text, and the citations of literature are where they should 
be, namely at the base of the page on which reference is made. 
The only cause for regret to be felt by the reader of these volumes comes 
from the thought of how much more valuable the work might have been had it 
but taken the form of a treatise on the physiology of protoplasm; for in such a 
form the author might not only have connected his ideas into a more available 
whole, but also would have been offered a better opportunity to give to the reader 
the benefit of his broader view of the suggestions arising therefrom.—B. E. Ltvinc- 
STON. 
NOTES FOR STUDENTS. 
ITEMS OF TAXONOMIC INTEREST are as follows: F. S. Ear.e (Bull. N. Y. 
Bot. Gard. 3: 289-312. 1905) has published 33 new species of West-American 
fungi and TQ new species of tropical (mostly Porto Rican) fungi.—J. K. SMALL 
(idem 419-440), under the title “Additions to the flora of subtropical Florida,” 
has published new species in Stenophyllus, Limodorum, Quercus (2), Phytolacca, 
Aeschynomene, Linum (2), Polygala (4), Phyllanthus, Croton, Stillingia, Chamae- 
shed Gaura, Proserpinaca, Adelia (2), Rhabdadenia, Jacquemontia, Helio- 
tropium, Lantana, Verbena, Scutellaria, Ruellia, Ernodea, Melanthera, and 
Carduus—P. A. Rypperc (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 32:123-140. 1905), in his 
Ercan 
* Lors, Jacques, Studies in general physiology. Part I, pp. xiiit423. Part 
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TL, pp. X1+425-782. Decennial Publications, The University of Chicago 1905. . 
