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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



TIERSOZIOLOGIE . Forschungen xur Vol- 

 kerfsychologie und Sofiologie, Band I. 

 By Friedrich Alverdes. C. L. Hirschfeld 



Mk. 4. 80 6| x 9I; viii + 152. Leipzig 

 (paper) 

 This interesting volume fittingly opens 

 a new series on folk psychology and 

 sociology. The first four chapters are 

 general discussions of animal associations; 

 the reproduction of solitary animals; and 

 social instincts in solitary animals . There 

 then follows a long chapter giving the 

 details regarding animal societies. With 

 these data in hand the author proceeds 

 to a general discussion of animal sociology 

 and social psychology. There is a final 

 short chapter on human social biology. 

 There is a bibliography of four pages and 

 an index. Altogether this is a useful 

 addition to the literature. 



selector, or determining factor of such original 

 combinations; this establishes cell pattern. Each 

 pattern possessing its own atomic individuality, thus 

 giving the cell its selective properties, which is the 

 basis of its future development. The opposite 

 polarity or potential difference, with electro-magnetic 

 energy as the external exitor factor, causes the cells 

 to generate sufficient electric energy to enable them 

 to absorb new atomic combinations of such quantity 

 and kind as they require to maintain, or increase 

 this potential difference in order to sustain themselves 

 or multiply." 



"Life is an electrical phenomenon. The body as 

 a whole, and its different organs, are power stations 

 for specific work, and the nerves like wires, form a 

 complicated, yet efficient network of communication 

 between these organs. This network of communica- 

 tion is again equipped with sub-power stations, 

 condensers, or tuners, to check, block, release, 

 increase or transform the electricity flowing through 

 them, and operating the motors of such organs as 

 are concerned in the vital generating process." 



The second book is about ' 'Rx The Life 

 Atom." 



DE OMNIBUS REBUS 

 ET QUIBUSDEM ALUS 



tsp Book: THE ELECTRO-CHEMICAL 

 FACTOR IN NEUROLOGY. A Research 

 in Electro Biology, by Ernest H. Basque. 

 2nd Book: NEW CONCEPTS OF PHYSICS, 

 by Calvin S. Page. 



The Atomic Research Assoc. 

 $10.00 5! x 9; 604 Detroit 



The chief conclusions of the first of 

 these two books bound together are: 



"In a general resume of the facts as compiled in 

 this work, we can say this: The energy recognized 

 as solar and planetary electro-magnetic force, under 

 specific conditions, combines atoms according to 

 definite laws, into combinations of molecules, proto- 

 plasms, and nuclei, which form the combinations 

 known as cells. 



"These cells, by reason of their atomic (chemic 

 difference between nucleus and protoplasm) have in 

 themselves opposite polarity. The prevailing 

 electro-magnetic environment of the moment is the 



"Rx is the newly discovered kind of atomic matter 

 whose atoms repel each other, upon contact, by their 

 inherent, repulsion Energy. 



"Rx is of all colors, governed by the associated 

 atoms, and is not affected by the force of gravity as 

 are all other known atoms. Hence Rx matter has 

 no weight. 



"The atoms of each kind of matter cohere to Rx 

 atoms only, upon contact, by their own strength 

 of inherent cohesion Energy." 



Rx is held to have great therapeutic 

 significance. Just what it will do and 

 how it will do it seem a little vague, but 

 there is an abundance of assertion that 

 it will. On page 569 (near the end of the 

 book) we find the following statement, 

 which ought to be reassuring. 



"Hence with this knowledge of Rx in the essential 

 functions of organic nature it is self-evident that there 

 must be great therapeutic value in the scientific appli- 

 cation of light to the human body. I say scientific 

 because the wonderful refinement of the harmonious 

 operations of the cycles of animal life is not only 

 evident in perfect health but in the universal con- 

 stancy of the temperature of 98 . 6°. " 



