240 Scientific Intelligence. 



Ill Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The Animal Mind; A Text-hook of Comparative Psychol- 

 ogy; by Margaret Ploy Washburn. Second edition. Pp. 

 xii, 386. New York, 1917 (The Macmillan Co.).— In the nine 

 years that have elapsed since the publication of the first edition 

 of this widely used text-book, the science has made such progress 

 as to demand a revision of the whole book and the rewriting 

 of more than half of it. The book consists of a general survey 

 of the field of Comparative Psychology, including a discussion of 

 the evidences of mind, the mind of the simplest animals, sensory 

 discrimination, spacially determined reactions, modification of 

 conscious processes by individual experience, and aspects of 

 attention. The subject is well considered and logically pre- 

 sented, w. R. c. 



2. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates; by J. S. Kingsley. 

 Second edition, revised. Pp. x, 449, with 406 figures. Phila- 

 delphia, 1917 (P. Blakiston's Son & Co.).— The first edition of 

 this book has been generally recognized as the standard American 

 text-book on Comparative Anatomy. This new edition has been 

 thoroughly revised and several sections entirely rewritten, bring- 

 ing the whole subject matter into harmony with the results of 

 the most recent investigations. About sixty new illustrations 

 have been added and several others redrawn. In addition to 

 the glossary of systematic names included in the earlier edition 

 an extensive list of Greek and Latin roots has been added to 

 aid the student in remembering the meaning of the technical 

 terms used by understanding their origin. The elimination of 

 many unnecessary technical terms, some of which are rarely 

 used by other authors, would have been of even greater advan- 

 tage both to the student and to the teacher. For the aim of the 

 book is to teach the facts rather than the terminology of the 

 subject, and in this respect it stands first in its field, w. r. c. 



3. A Short History of Science; by W. T. Sedgwick and H. 

 W. Tyler. Pp. xv, 474. New York, 1917 (The Macmillan 

 Company). — For nearly thirty years the students of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology have had the benefit of a lec- 

 ture course on the history of science designed to present to them 

 a broad general view of its evolution and thus to increase their 

 interest in their scientific studies. The present volume is stated 

 to be an outgrowth of this lecture course and "aims to furnish 

 the student and the general reader with a concise account of 

 the origin of that scientific knowledge and that scientific method 

 which, especially within the last century, have come to have so 

 important a share in shaping the conditions and directing the 

 activities of human life." 



It is hardly necessary to state that the work of the authors 



