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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  Henry 
  Hering, 
  sculptor, 
  for 
  the 
  Museum, 
  with 
  the 
  plates 
  show- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  fine 
  execution 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  figures. 
  

  

  4. 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  ; 
  F. 
  W. 
  Hodge, 
  Ethnolo- 
  

   gist 
  in 
  Charge. 
  — 
  Bulletin 
  59 
  (pp. 
  387), 
  recently 
  issued, 
  is 
  

   devoted 
  to 
  Kutenai 
  Tales, 
  by 
  Franz 
  Boaz; 
  these 
  are 
  accom- 
  

   panied 
  by 
  texts 
  by 
  Alexander 
  F. 
  Chamberlain. 
  

  

  5. 
  Memoirs 
  of 
  the 
  Queensland 
  Museum. 
  Volume 
  VI 
  ; 
  edited 
  

   by 
  the 
  Director, 
  Heber 
  A. 
  Longman. 
  Pp. 
  174; 
  with 
  text- 
  

   figures, 
  32 
  plates 
  and 
  frontispiece. 
  Brisbane, 
  1918. 
  — 
  This 
  sixth 
  

   volume 
  from 
  the 
  Queensland 
  Museum 
  (see 
  earlier 
  43, 
  422) 
  

   is 
  devoted 
  to 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  twelve 
  papers, 
  on 
  zoological 
  and 
  ethnolog- 
  

   ical 
  subjects. 
  Several 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  continuations 
  of 
  articles 
  on 
  the 
  

   fishes 
  of 
  Queensland 
  in 
  earlier 
  issues 
  of 
  this 
  publication. 
  The 
  

   volume 
  is 
  liberally 
  illustrated 
  by 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  excellent 
  

   plates. 
  The 
  opening 
  article 
  by 
  the 
  Director 
  discusses 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  

   human 
  crania 
  in 
  the 
  Museum. 
  The 
  frontispiece 
  gives 
  a 
  view 
  of 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  building. 
  

  

  6. 
  The 
  Elementary 
  Nervous 
  System; 
  by 
  G. 
  H. 
  Parker. 
  Pp. 
  

   229, 
  with 
  53 
  illustrations. 
  Philadelphia 
  and 
  London, 
  1919 
  (J. 
  B. 
  

   Lippincott 
  Company). 
  — 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  second 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  series 
  

   of 
  monographs 
  on 
  Experimental 
  Biology 
  written 
  by 
  American 
  

   investigators. 
  In 
  it 
  the 
  author 
  describes 
  in 
  great 
  detail 
  the 
  rela- 
  

   tively 
  simple 
  nervous 
  mechanism 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  most 
  primitive 
  

   groups 
  of 
  multicellular 
  animals, 
  as 
  sponges, 
  sea-anemones, 
  corals, 
  

   hydroids, 
  and 
  jelly-fishes. 
  

  

  The 
  responses 
  of 
  these 
  organisms 
  to 
  various 
  forms 
  of 
  stimuli 
  

   are 
  described 
  and 
  their 
  behavior 
  under 
  experimental 
  conditions 
  

   are 
  discussed 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  such 
  elementary 
  muscular 
  and 
  

   nervous 
  tissues 
  as 
  they 
  possess. 
  The 
  work 
  is 
  based 
  largely 
  on 
  

   the 
  author's 
  personal 
  investigations, 
  It 
  is 
  shown 
  that 
  while 
  the 
  

   sponges 
  have 
  no 
  distinct 
  nervous 
  elements, 
  they 
  are 
  provided 
  

   with 
  a 
  primitive 
  type 
  of 
  muscle 
  tissue 
  which 
  represents 
  the 
  begin- 
  

   ning 
  of 
  the 
  neuromuscular 
  mechanism 
  of 
  the 
  next 
  higher 
  groups. 
  

   The 
  sluggish 
  transmission 
  of 
  stimuli 
  which 
  lead 
  to 
  responses 
  in 
  

   the 
  sponges 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  ' 
  elemental 
  property 
  of 
  protoplas- 
  

   mic 
  transmission 
  from 
  which 
  true 
  nervous 
  activity 
  has 
  been 
  

   evolved," 
  and 
  this 
  property 
  is 
  retained 
  by 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  tissues 
  

   of 
  the 
  higher 
  animals. 
  . 
  

  

  The 
  gradual 
  differentiation 
  of 
  the 
  neuromuscular 
  mechanism 
  

   and 
  the 
  nerve 
  net 
  of 
  the 
  coelenterates 
  is 
  described, 
  with 
  experi- 
  

   mental 
  evidence 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  responses 
  which 
  this 
  

   simple 
  nervous 
  system 
  can 
  effect. 
  

  

  The 
  concluding 
  chapter 
  outlines 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  this 
  elemen- 
  

   tary 
  nervous 
  mechanism 
  into 
  the 
  synaptic 
  nervous 
  system 
  of 
  the 
  

   higher 
  forms. 
  w. 
  R. 
  c. 
  

  

  7. 
  Outlines 
  of 
  Economic 
  Zoology; 
  by 
  Albert 
  M. 
  Eeese. 
  Pp. 
  

   wii. 
  316, 
  with 
  194 
  illustrations. 
  'Philadelphia, 
  1919 
  (P. 
  Blakis- 
  

   ton's 
  Son 
  and 
  Co.). 
  — 
  The 
  increased 
  competition 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  

   great 
  war, 
  resulting 
  in 
  a 
  concerted 
  effort 
  to 
  utilize 
  to 
  the 
  fullest 
  

  

  