NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 



449 



fulness of the book to the beginning 

 student of endocrinology. 



THE GLANDS OF DESTINY. (A Study 

 of the Personality.^) 



By Ivo Geikie Cobb. The Macmillan Co. 



$3.00 4I x jj; vii + Z95 New York 

 This is a readable discussion of the 

 effects produced by the glands of internal 

 secretion on the mind and character of 

 the individual. It is one of a number that 

 have appeared recently, all of them de- 

 signed for lay consumption. Although 

 the author shows a commendable tendency 

 to stick to facts the spirit of the journalist 

 occasionally gets the better of him as on 

 pages 8z and 83 where we learn that, "It 

 is apparent that the individual capable of 

 a speedy response is, in all probability, 

 one who has an active adrenal medulla," 

 and that "The adrenal type is a quiet, 

 alert and successful one." To be sure 

 his conscience bothers him a bit, and to 

 show that he might be worse he quotes 

 Berman to the effect that one "adrenal- 

 centered type" is "Hairy, dark, masculin- 

 ity marked, with tendency to diphtheria 

 and hernia." 



ALLGEMEINE PHYSIOLOGIE. Hand- 

 buch der normalen und pathologischen Physi- 

 ologic . Band I. 



64 marks (paper) Julius Springer 



69.60 marks (bound) Berlin 



6£ x 10J; xii + 748 

 This first volume of a new, compre- 

 hensive Handbook of physiology, which 

 is to be completed in some 17 volumes, 

 under the general editorship of Professors 

 Bethe, von Bergmann, Embden, and the 

 late Prof. Ellinger, contains the following 

 articles : Definition of life and the organ- 

 ism, by J. v. Uexkiill; the chemical system 



of the organism and its energy relation, by 

 W. Lipschitz; enzymes, by P. Rona; 

 physical chemistry of colloid systems, by 

 G. Ettisch; bioenergetics, by H. Zwaarde- 

 maker; irritability and stimulation, by 

 P. Broemser; general conditions of life, 

 by A. Putter; interchange of material 

 between the protoplast and its surround- 

 ings, by R. Hober; ion effects, by H. 

 Reichel and K. Spiro; narcosis, by H. 

 H. Meyer; protoplasmic poisons, by H. 

 Reichel and K. Spiro; the functional 

 significance of cell structure, particularly 

 with reference to the nucleus, by G. 

 Hertwig; division of labor in higher 

 organisms, by O. Steche; parasitism and 

 symbiosis, by O. Steche; evolution and 

 adaptation, by J. v. Uexkiill; the circula- 

 tion of matter in nature, by K. Boresch. 

 There is a subject, but no author index. 

 The book will be a useful reference source 

 for the general biologist. 



ELEMENTS OF PHYSIOLOGY. For 



Students of Medicine and Advanced Biology. 

 By Ernest G. Martin and Frank W. Wey- 

 mouth. Lea and Febiger 

 $8.00 net 5! x 9I; 784 Philadelphia 

 The guiding ideas around which this 

 new textbook of physiology is written 

 are first that living protoplasm is a system 

 of molecules and ions, hence understanding 

 of its structure and functioning is to be 

 sought by attempting to apply to it the 

 physical, physico-chemical and chemical 

 laws by which the interrelations of 

 molecules and ions are described. The 

 second basic idea is that every proto- 

 plasmic cell is inherently a self-sustaining 

 system. Consequently, if it is continu- 

 ously provided with a proper environment, 

 it should continue to live and function 

 indefinitely (subject, of course, to the 

 possible influence of intrinsic senility). 



