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will make the book helpful to those who are interested in the 

 investigation of physiological problems, as well as to the student 

 of medicine. 



The first part of the Lecons takes up the graphic method and 

 its applications, together with a consideration of the chief forms 

 of apparatus and instruments ordinarily employed in the physio- 

 logical laboratory. This is followed by a study of the general 

 properties of nerves, nervous centers and muscles, of respiration 

 and the phenomena of the circulation. The parts on alimenta- 

 tion are treated largely from the standpoint of the physiological 

 chemist, while the older methods for studying the more purely 

 physiological functions of the digestive glands are also outlined 

 at some length. The book concludes with a chapter on animal 

 heat and calorimetry. Over three hundred figures and drawings 

 illustrate the text ; and like the methods and apparatus described, 

 they are taken almost entirely from French sources. l. b. m. 



2. Webster's International Dictionary, New Edition, with a 

 Supplement of 288 pages, containing 25 ',000 additional words and 

 phrases. Springfield, Mass. (G. C. Merriam & Co.), 1900. — This 

 standard work has been very much improved and increased in 

 value by the addition of large numbers of scientific and other terms 

 that have come into more common use since the publication of the 

 previous edition in 1890. These additional terms relate to every 

 department of science and have been defined by numerous special- 

 ists. In general Biology, and in systematic and structural Botany 

 and Zoology the number of additional words is particularly not- 

 iceable, in accordance with the recent rapid progress in these 

 departments of science. In Zoology a large number of native or 

 market names of West Indian, South African, Australian, and 

 East Indian fishes, birds and other tropical forms, have been 

 added, largely due to the recently increased interest, on the part 

 of the English speaking peoples, in these tropical regions. Over 

 sixty species of the fishes of Porto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba and the 

 Bermudas are illustrated by cuts. There are over three hundred 

 new zoological figures. A considerable part of these illustrate 

 insects injurious to agricultural crops, or to fruit and shade trees 

 in America. Most of these insects are grouped under the name 

 of the tree or plant that they most damage, which will enable 

 one unfamiliar with technical entomology to find and identify 

 insects by the damage that they do. In too many dictionaries 

 the insects, fishes, birds, etc., are placed under their tech- 

 nical scientific names, or else under improvised "book-names" 

 that have never come into general use and are known only 

 to specialists, which renders it very difficult for one not a 

 specialist to find the information desired, even when it is 

 contained in the book. In Botany the names of most of the orders 

 and larger groups of plants have been introduced, with brief 

 definitions. A considerable number of new Ethnological terms 

 has been added, many of them relating to the races and tribes of 

 the Philippines and other oriental countries. A large number of 



