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poisons and other chemical bodies. The question of acclimatization to 
chemical agents is especially well treated and partly based upon the 
author’s own work. 
Though essentially a compilation of facts, and hence not always free 
from the criticism of introdticing statements upon doubtful authority 
—especially when one considers the author’s great regard for accuracy 
and the comprehensiveness of knowledge necessary in experimental work 
—there is much that is original in the summarization at the end of chap- 
ters. Original work by the author is also included, and illustrated by 
some of the simple, but effective, diagrams as those showing the move- 
ments of amcebe in light and in darkness. 
The author’s experiments upon ameeba lead him to differ from Ver- 
worn and to decide that this lowly organized creature is strongly affected 
by light. 
Such fundamental work is of the greatest interest to all biologists, 
whether devoted to botany or zoology, morphology or physiology, 
chemical or physical sides of life phemomena, and this chronicle of it 
should be of great interest to all who have escaped, or outgrown, that 
unfortunate myopia that too often limits the interests of the specialist. 
That the book is called a morphology is misleading as to its content: 
scientific physiology, without dependence upon medical instruction, 
would more fitly characterize it. 
We trust the book will find the appreciation it so well deserves, both 
among specialists and among the intelligent laity —E. A. A. 
Oceanic Ichthyology.’—This work, issued as a special Bulletin 
in quarto form by the U. S. National Museum, is the joint production 
of Messrs. G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. Its preparation 
has extended over a number of years. As first planned it was to include 
only the oceanic fishes on the east coast of North America. As new 
material was acquired by the Museum from collections made by the 
steamers Blake, Albatross and Fish Hawk, and from other dredgings 
of the U. S. Fish Commission, the work expanded to its present form, 
and it now stands as a “ compendium and summary of existing klowledge 
in regard to Oceanic Ichthyology.” The discussion takes the form of 
descriptions of all forms of pelagic and deep sea fishes found in the 
seas of the world, special prominence being given to those of the Atlantic 
cean. 
? Oceanic T : reatise on Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the 
World, with Syr Ae a 417 Figures. By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton 
Bean. Special Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus., Washington, 1895. 
