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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



pletely fallen. Max von Pettenkofer was 

 a great man, who paid a heavy penalty 

 for having lived at the same time that 

 Pasteur did. Even to this day it is 

 impossible for any sort of bacteriological 

 work relating to disease to get considera- 

 tion strictly and solely on its objective 

 merits. All such work is evaluated, 

 consciously or unconsciously, on the basis 

 of dicta laid down by Pasteur and Koch. 

 Pettenkofer's theories of epidemics fared 

 badly under such Procrustean limitations. 

 Hume says that his hypothesis is "no 

 longer tenable. ' ' But is there any general 

 theory of epidemiology today which pre- 

 tends that it includes all the variables 

 which are important in the production of 

 epidemics? 



Dr. Hume has written an extremely 

 interesting and valuable little book. 

 There is a bibliography of Z85 titles. 



AUTOUR DES INSCRIPTIONS DE 

 GLOZEL. 



By Rene Dussaud. Armand Colin 



5 francs 5 J x 8; 57 (paper) Paris 



The Glozel controversy has become the 

 leading topic of conversation wherever 

 anthropologists and archaeologists are 

 gathered. The French workers in these 

 fields are apparently irreconcilably divided 

 on the matter. The official report, and 

 the writings of independent investigators 

 who have studied the corpus delicti on the 

 spot, serve apparently only to widen the 

 breach, instead of bringing the contending 

 parties together. 



In the present pamphlet the author, who 

 is a member of the Institute, an assistant 

 curator of the Louvre, and a specialist 

 on Semitic inscriptions, comes to the 

 conclusion that all the inscriptions on the 

 famous tablets alleged to have been exca- 

 vated at Glozel are fakes, pure and simple. 



NATURAL MAN. A Record from Borneo. 

 By Charles Hose. The Macmillan Co. 



$10.00 6| x 9I; xvi + Z84 New York 

 Sir Charles Hose has been for many 

 years an administrative officer in Borneo. 

 He collaborated with Professor William 

 McDougall in writing The Pagan Tribes 

 of Borneo, and has aided with material 

 comparative anatomists and anthropolo- 

 gists all over the world. This book is 

 based on his long personal acquaintance 

 with the various native tribes of Borneo, 

 and contains a wealth of material of great 

 value to the student of cultural evolution. 

 Of particular interest is his account of 

 the Punans, a tribe which has practically 

 no culture whatever. These people are, 

 in some sense, cultural fossils, comparable 

 in their significance for the study of 

 cultural evolution to that of Archaeopterx 

 in the study of comparative anatomy. 

 The book is interestingly written, and 

 well indexed. Professor Elliot Smith con- 

 tributes an introduction. 



MAYA CITIES. A Record of Exploration 

 and Adventure in Middle America. 

 By Thomas Gann. Charles Scribner's Sons 

 $5.00 5! x 9; 156 New York 



The author, who is an experienced 

 traveller and explorer, entertainingly de- 

 scribes his most recent discoveries and 

 adventures in British Honduras. Besides 

 being of importance archeologically, the 

 book is charmingly written. Numerous 

 illustrations give it added interest. The 

 author incidentally records a good many 

 interesting and new observations on the 

 plant and animal life of the region. Per- 

 haps the outstanding feature of the book 

 is the picture it gives of the still un- 

 exploited opportunities for discoveries in 

 British Honduras regarding the Maya and 

 earlier civilizations. 



