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tions within the United States (93-394). The use of this book 

 in the eighth grade ov the first year of high school would enrich 

 the curriculum and add interest to the studies of later years. 



H. E. (J. 



6. A Laboratory Outline of Neurology; by C. Judson Her- 

 rick and Elizabeth C. Crosby. Pp. xii, 120, illustrated. 

 Philadelphia and London, 1918 (W. B. Sa/unders Company). — 

 The laboratory course in neurology developed at the University 

 of Chicago is here presented in outline. This outline is written 

 from the same point of view as the senior author 's Introduction 

 to Neurology and, as in the latter, emphasis is laid upon the 

 correlation of the functional with the morphological relation- 

 ships of the different parts. Reference is made throughout the 

 Outline to an extensive bibliography and it is emphasized that 

 the student should read up each topic "as completely as possible 

 from both the anatomical and the physiological .standpoints." 

 This is desirable, for without especial stimulus too many stu- 

 dents are content with the letter of the textbook to the complete 

 exclusion of all other literature on the subject. c. h. g. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Grove Karl Gilbert, the geologist, one of the senior 

 members of the staff of the U. S. Geological Survey, died at 

 Jackson, Mich., on May 1st. He would have attained his 75th 

 birthday on May 6th. His career as a geologist began on the 

 Ohio State Survey in 1869 ; he was with the Wheeler Exploring 

 Expedition from 1871-74 and with the survey under Powell 

 from 1874-79. When the western surveys were united into the 

 present national organization in 1879 he became, and has since 

 remained, one of its geologic staff. He was one of the best known 

 of American geologists and had received merited recognition at 

 home and abroad. A keen observer and a patient and accurate 

 Avorker he was distinguished by a comprehensive grasp of detail, 

 united to great power of generalization, and a noted originality 

 of mind. The great opportunities offered by the unexplored 

 West he took full advantage of, and in several fields of geology, 

 notably in physiography, his pioneer work was of the most 

 fundamental kind, serving indeed as a basis upon which much 

 of the structure of the present science has been built. Per- 

 sonally a man of the highest character, and of great amiability 

 of disposition, his loss will be keenly felt by a host of friends 

 and colleagues. It is intended to present a more extended 

 notice of him in a later number. 



Dr. George Jennings Hinde, the well known English paleon- 

 tologist, died on March 18, at the age of seventy-nine years. He 

 lived for seven years at Toronto, and traveled widely in Canada 

 and the United States. During his long life he remained inter- 

 ested in American paleontology and paleontologists, and he will 

 be remembered for his great work on fossil sponges, and his 

 many papers on fossil radiolarians, conodonts, annelid jaws, etc. 



