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lends figure and charm to a man's recrea- 

 tions (such as so fortunately comes from 

 the art galleries and museums) is taken up. 

 I believe that no use of money can bring 

 greater returns to the state, or greater 

 satisfaction to the giver who understands 

 the educational situation, than large gifts 

 for the purposes of industrial education 

 that I name. Dugald C. Jackson 



Massachusetts Institute 

 OF Technology 



8CIENTIFIG BOOKS 

 Stohr's Histology Arranged upon an Emhry- 



ological Basis. By Dr. Frederick T. Lewis. 



Sixth American edition from the twelfth 



German edition. Philadelphia: P. Blakis- 



ton's Son and Company. 



At the close of the eighteenth and at the 

 beginning of the nineteenth century, anatomy 

 reached a high degree of development. Soem- 

 mering had completed his ' Ban des mensch- 

 liehen Korpers ' and Biehat had given us his 

 master work — ' Anatomie generale.' With the 

 completion of the latter the scalpel reached 

 its highest attainment. The microscope, so 

 :successful]y introduced into anatomical studies 

 by Malpighi and Leeuwenhoek, replaced to a 

 certain extent the scalpel and histology began 

 to occupy a prominent place in the medical 

 curriculum. 



In the development of this branch of an- 

 atomical study, Wiirzburg has taken a promi- 

 nent place. The first name we meet, one now 

 but little known, is Heusinger, called by 

 Hessling ' unser histologischen Nestor.' Some 

 thirty years later, Kolliker published the first 

 and, in some respects, the best edition of his 

 ' Gewebelehre ' and now his place is taken by 

 -Stohr. 



' Stohr's Histology ' is well and favorably 

 known to American students, not only in the 

 German but also through the English trans- 

 lation. In the previous five American editions 

 but little change has been made from the 

 German. The present edition has been re- 

 written and ' adapted * * * to American 

 needs.' 



The idea of arranging the book on an em- 

 bryological basis is excellent, but it has not 

 been carried out as thoroughly as it should 

 have been. The book is intended primarily 

 for students of medicine. It is, therefore, 

 eminently proper that human embryology 

 should form the basis of the work. Instead 

 of this, we find the rabbit, the chick and the 

 pig occupying a prominent place; for example, 

 of the five figures to illustrate the formation 

 of the germ layers, only one is taken from a 

 human embryo. 



In reviewing an American edition of a Ger- 

 man text-book, it is interesting to see to what 

 extent American work is recognized. Koll- 

 mann in his recent ' Entwicklungsgeschichte 

 des Menschen ' has recognized very generously 

 American work, and the prospectus of the new 

 embryology by Keibel also shows a good 

 American representation. In the American 

 edition of Szymonowicz and of Bohm and 

 Davidoff American investigation occupies a 

 prominent place. Lewis has not been as 

 generous and fails in many places to use 

 available literature. 



The work of Mall on the connective tissues 

 is not given as fully as it should have been. 

 Lewis still describes the so-called ' fenestrated 

 membrane' as being perforated, though Mall 

 has shown that this is not the case. ISTo 

 reference is made to the work of Bardeen on 

 the histogenesis of striated muscle, or that 

 of MacCallum on heart muscle. The work of 

 Huber and De Witt on muscle spindles is 

 passed over and no reference seems to be made 

 to the work of Donaldson and his students 

 on the nerves and nerve cells. 



That Lewis should make his own work the 

 basis of his description of the lymphatics is 

 very natural and it justly deserves a promi- 

 nent place, but some reference should be made 

 to the excellent work done on the same sub- 

 ject by Miss Sabin, even though he is not in 

 perfect accord. 



The description of the vascular supply of 

 the lymph nodes could be made clearer by 

 using the diagrams of Calvert. 



The work of Mall on the spleen is given 

 scanty notice and is dismissed with the state- 

 ment that Stohr says : ' a division into lobules 



