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NOTICE OF BOOK. 
Comparative Electro-Phystology ; a Physico-Physiological Study. 
By Jacapis Caunper Bose. Pp. 760. With Illustrations. 
Longmans, Green & Co. 1907. Price 15s. 
To review this work in the sense of giving a critical, detailed 
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and Pfeffer will mean no more to them than Theophrastus or 
Albertus Magnus mean to us. 
According to Professor Bose, the modern view of stimulus is 
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plant of radiant energy in photosynthesis as a solar myth, since he 
asks, If plants do not derive energy from stimuli, whence do they 
get it ? 
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vegetal nerve,” and after researches in many other matters of 
equal or greater importance, considers the physical basis of sensa- 
tion and offers views on memory. : : 
As to the permanent value of many of the conclusions which 
Professor Bose draws from his investigations it 1s premature 
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