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body-wall — assumes an entirely new function — the formation of a 
limb — because of the peculiar needs of the organism.] çp, D. 
The Journal of Comparative Neurology’ begins its eighth volume 
with a commendable number of original contributions and its usual 
full series of literary notices. Dr. Alfred Schaper gives an account 
of the finer structure of the Selachian cerebellum, as shown by 
chrome-silver preparations. Dr. P. A. Fish describes the brain of 
the fur seal, Ca//orhinus ursinus, and discusses the nerve cell as a unit. 
C. L. Herrick contributes three articles: one on the “ Physiological 
Corollaries of the Equilibrium Theory of Nervous Action and Control”; 
a second “ On Cortical Motor Centres ”; and a third, in conjunction 
with G. E. Coghill, on the “Somatic Equilibrium and the Nerve 
Endings in the Skin.” The number of collaborators on the Journal 
has been increased, and now includes Prof. H. H. Donaldson, Prof. 
L. Edinger, Prof. A. van Gehuchten, Prof. G. C. Huber, Dr. B. F. 
Kingsbury, Prof. F. S. Lee, and Dr. A. Meyer. G. H. P. 
Physiological Archives. — The University of Chicago has pub- 
lished a second volume of Physiological Archives, under the editorship 
of Professor Jacques Loeb. The volume contains seventeen contri- 
butions, mostly reprints from articles by Professor Loeb and his 
pupils, and affords substantial evidence of the activity of the Hull 
Physiological Laboratory. EHP 
We are glad to see that the Macmillan Company announce for early 
publication General Physiology; an Outline of the Science of Life, by 
Max Verworn, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Physiology in the Medical 
Faculty of the University of Jena. Translated from the second 
German edition and edited by Frederic S. Lee, Ph.D., adjunct Pro- 
fessor of Physiology in Columbia University. : 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Observations on the Muscular Variations of the Human Races.’ 
— Notwithstanding the exhaustive studies that have been devoted to 
the human skeleton, there yet remain many unsolved problems per- 
taining to the relation of culture, environment, and race to the 
1 The Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. vii, July, 1898, Nos. 1 and 2. 
2 Chudzinski, Th. Observations sur les variations musculaires dans les races — 
humaines, Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris; 1, ti, Fasc. i, 1898. 
