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given above must fail to give an adequate idea of this book, and yet 
it is about as much of detail as our space will allow. In general we 
may say that the book pleases us; that while we find a few statements 
here and there which we might question, we feel deeply indebted to 
Prof. Minot not only for the compilation of such a valuable résumé of 
the work of other embryologists, but for the numbers of new contri- 
butions which we find in his pages. One feature which is of especial 
_ value, and which cannot but strike the reader, is the richness of cita- 
tion of the works of other students. The illustrations also are good, 
and while most of them are process cuts, the majority have a freshness 
which is very pleasing. 
The other work upon our list, Prof. Mark’s Translation of Hertwig’s 
Embryology,’ does not need very extended mention, as the original 
has already been noticed in this journal. Its plan is greatly different 
from that of Minot in that after the introductory chapters of Part 
One the history of development is followed for the organs of the differ- 
ent germ-layers: Entoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm and mesenchym. 
The translation is done in a very satisfactory manner, and a careful 
reading of a considerable portion of the translation fails to reveal 
many of the “awkward renderings and German idioms” to which 
Dr. Mark refers in the preface. One feature of the translation 
deserves mention. For anlage the term fundament is used. Had this 
translation been introduced several years ago it might hope for general 
acceptation, but now that anlage is being bodily carried over into 
English (Minot, for instance, uses it throughout), we hardly think 
that the translation will prevail, especially in the face of the other and 
not obsolete meaning of the word. The printing of the text is good, 
but some of the cuts of the translation (clichés from the German cuts) 
are muddy and lack the clearness and delicacy of the German edition. 
It would have been difficult to find two men better adapted for their 
respective tasks than these. For ten years Dr. Minot has been accumu- 
lating the materials for his portly volume, and he has had excep- 
tional facilities in working over the preparations of some of the 
European masters. Dr. Mark, on the other hand, brings to the posi- 
tion of translator an accurate and detailed knowledge of the subject 
matter, and an almost extreme care that every word in his translation 
shall express, so far as the genius of our language permits, exactly the 
*Text Book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals, by Dr. Oscar 
Hertwig, translated from the third German edition by Edward L. Mark. 
London, Swan Sonnenschein; New York, Macmillan & Co. 1892, pp. xvi 
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