1897,] Editor’s Table. 803 
“ Allgemeine Physiologie” 10 pages ; of Lloyd Morgan’s “ Definitions 
of Instinct” 73 pages (complete translation); of Baldwin’s “Mental 
Development” 8 pages; of Coutagne’s‘‘ Polymorphisme des Mollus- 
ques” (by the author) 6 pages. Many of the reviews are accompanied 
by valuable critical comments and some of them are illustrated by 
simple figures. 
The summaries of progress and comprehensive reviews are very valu- 
able. Some of these are: Influence of stock on graft, by Daniel; Ex- 
perimental data upon functional correlation in animals, by Gley; On 
polyzoism and on the integrating organologic unity in Vertebrates, by 
Durrand; The defences of the organism in the presence of virus (38 
pages), by Charrin; The soluable ferments, by Bourquelot ; Compara- 
tive study of microbic toxines and of venin, by Phisalix ; The modern 
conception of the structure of the nervous system (25 pages, 7 figures) 
by Mlle. Szezawinska ; Modern psychology and its recent progress (28 
pages), by Binet; Note on the theory of plasomes, by Wiesner, with 
response by Delage; On the phenomena of reproduction, by Hartog. 
These summaries touch a large proportion of the biological subjects 
whose advance characterized the year 1895. 
Without going at all into the subject matter of this number, which 
will be considered elsewhere, this much may be said: The appearance 
of L’ Année biologique with its classification, analysis, and synthesis of a 
vast array of facts, many of which find elsewhere no reception, is doing 
an important work in bringing general biology into recognition as a 
science codrdinate with, although overlapping, morphology and 
physiology. 
There is an important omission, it seems to us, in the list of over 500 
periodicals consulted by the editors of L’Année Biologique. This 
omission is of a class of journals which are on the borderline of the 
scientific but yet contain important biological data. To this class be- 
long the journals devoted to agriculture, horticulture, breeding veteri- 
nary medicine, surgery and medicine. From such journals Darwin 
obtained many of his most important facts. We open his “ Variation 
of Animals and Plants” at random and quote some of his references; 
Gardiner’s Chronical, Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, Horticultural 
Transactions, Journal of Horticulture, Journal of the Roy. Horticult. 
Soc., British and Foreign Medico-Chirurg. Review, Jour. of Agricult. 
of Highland Soc., Landwirthschaft. Wochenblatt, Jour. del’ Acad. Hort. 
de Gand. Interspersed with such as these there are, of course, refer- 
ences to the more scientific journals. There is no question, however, 
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