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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



THE MICROSCOPY OF DRINKING 

 WATER. 



By George Chandler Whipple. Revised by 

 Gordon M. Fair and Melville C. Whipple. 

 John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 

 $7.00 New York 



5! x 9; xix +586+19 plates 

 A fourth edition, revised after the dis- 

 tinguished author's death by two of his 

 colleagues, of a book which has been a 

 standard reference work for sanitary en- 

 gineers and limnologists for nearly thirty 

 years. A large amount of new material 

 has been added throughout the book, and 

 it has been brought up to date. It thus 

 starts another long career of usefulness. 



PHEASANT JUNGLES. 

 By William Beebe. G. P. Putnam's Sons 



$3.00 6 x 8f ; xiii + Z48 New York 

 For the material of this popular travel 

 book the author draws on his experiences 

 of a number of years ago in the jungles of 

 Ceylon, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and 

 the Himalayas, when he was collecting 

 material for his monograph on the pheas- 

 ants. The tale has all the charm of style 

 and thrilling interest of matter which the 

 public has come to associate with Mr. 

 Beebe 's writings on natural history. 



MICROSCOPIC FRESH WATER LIFE. 

 By F. J. W. Plaskitt. 



Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 

 13s. 6d. 5J x 8|; xi + Z78 London 

 An elementary manual primarily in- 

 tended for, and likely to be chiefly useful 

 to, the amateur microscopist. It is abun- 

 dantly illustrated, partly by photographs 

 and partly by line drawings. The former 

 are, on the whole, better executed than the 

 latter. 



HOW BIRDS LIVE. A Brief Account of] 

 Bird Life in the Light of Modern Observation. 

 By E. M. Nicholson. 



Williams and Nor gate, Ltd. 

 3s. 6d. 4! x -j\\ x + 139 London 



A very interesting popular account of 

 the natural history of common birds, with 

 a number of valuable original observations 

 on bird populations, natural elimination, 

 and other ecological topics. We highly 

 recommend this little book to the atten- 

 tion of general biologists and students of 

 evolution. 



KINETIC THEORY OF GASES. 

 By Leonard B. Loeb. 



McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 

 $5-5° 5 f x 9; xvi +555 New York 



A thorough, critical review of the present 

 state of knowledge and opinion regarding 

 the kinetic theory of gases . It is primarily 

 intended for students of physics and 

 chemistry, but will be a useful reference 

 work for general biologists and physiolo- 

 gists. It is abundantly documented bib- 

 liographically, and has good indices. 



DAS LEBEN IN FINALER AUFFAS- 

 SUNG. Abhandlungen %ur theoretischen Bio- 

 logie, Heft 26. 



By Eugenio Rignano. Authorised German 

 edition by Paul Graf Thun-Hohenstein. 



Gebriider Borntraeger 

 z.70 marks 6^ x 10; 35 (paper) Berlin 

 A German translation of a condensed 

 statement of the author's well known 

 vitalistic theory of the observed teleology 

 in nature, with an introduction by Hans 

 Driesch, saying, in effect, that while 

 Rignano 's brand of vitalism is not his 

 brand, still all vitalism is good, and 

 urging the reader to compare the two 

 kinds. 



