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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



BIOCHEMISTRY 



PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND BIO- 

 PHYSICS. 

 By Matthew Steel. 



John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 

 $4.00 5! x 9; x -f 372. New York 



A textbook in which the rudiments of 

 physical chemistry are treated in a manner 

 especially adapted to the requirements of 

 medical and biological students. It is 

 so arranged as to make it suitable for a 

 course continuing through at least a third 

 of an academic year. The illustrations of 

 the application of physico-chemical prin- 

 ciples are taken from the fields of biology, 

 physiology and medicine. Considerable 

 attention is given to the nature and 

 structure of matter, while in the chapter 

 on the Colloidal State of Matter the work 

 of Jacques Loeb on proteins is treated with 

 considerable detail. A number of illus- 

 trations and a complete author and subject 

 index increase the usefulness of the 

 book. 



UBER DIE KATALYTISCHEN WIR- 

 KUNGEN DER LEBENDIGEN 



SUBSTANZ. Arbeit en aus dem Kaiser 

 Wilhelm-Institut fur Biologie, Berlin-Dahlem. 

 Edited by Otto Warburg. Julius Springer 



36 marks (paper) Berlin 



37.80 marks (bound) 



6| x 9I; vi + 52.8 

 A collection of papers by Warburg and 

 his students, arranged under three general 

 heads: Respiration and fermentation; car- 

 bonic acid and nitrate assimilation; and 

 the catalytic action of growing cells. 

 There is appended a bibliography covering 

 four pages, but unfortunately there is no 

 index, which diminishes the usefulness of 

 a compilation of separate studies like this. 

 It is, however, a real service to have 



available in one volume all these scattered 

 papers giving the results of the very 

 important work that Dr. Warburg is 

 doing on cellular metabolism and the 

 cancer problem. 



DIE BESTIMMUNG DER WASSER- 

 STOFFIONENKONZENTRATION VON 

 FLUSSIGKEITEN. Bin Lehrbuch der 

 Theorie and Praxis der Wasserstoff%ahlmes- 

 sungen in element arer Darstellungfur Chemiker, 

 Biologen und Medi^iner. 

 Dr. Ernst Mislowitzer. Julius Springer 



Paper : Z4 marks Berlin 



Bound: 2.5. 50 marks 



6i x 9I; x + 378 

 The introduction by Professor Rona 

 states that this book was prepared at his 

 suggestion to fill a gap in the German 

 literature occasioned by the fact that the 

 first edition of Michaelis' treatise on 

 hydrogen ion concentration, "ein Meis- 

 terwerk didaktischer Kunst," has for 

 many years been out of print. The scope 

 of the present work is sufficiently indicated 

 in its title. There is a bibliography 

 covering some 3Z pages. 



DIE METHODIK DER FERMENTE. 

 Lieferung I. 



Edited by Carl Oppenheimer and Ludwig 

 Pincussen. Georg Thieme 



z8 marks Leipzig 



7§ x iof ; x + 320 (paper) 

 This is the first part of what is to 

 be a large collective reference work on 

 enzymes. It contains zo chapters, of 

 varying lengths, contributed by a number 

 of different authorities in this field. The 

 volume is divided into two parts, of which 

 the first deals with the general methodol- 

 ogy of enzyme investigations, physical, 

 physico-chemical, and chemical. The 



