1240 General Notes. | December, 
intensified by the addition of acid; this indicates that the kidney 
still secretes the injected fuchsin, but that its power of forming 
acid is diminished, probably due to fatigue of the secretory pro- 
toplasm. The kidney, examined microscopically early in the 
experiment, offers nothing peculiar in its appearance, all parts 
are equally colorless; but when fuchsin has been continuously 
eliminated during some hours the cells of the convoluted por- 
tions of the tubules are found stained deeply red, while the cap- 
sules are quite without color. 
Heidenhain found in his researches on the elimination of indi- 
go-carmine by. the kidney that the nuclei of the cells were always 
deeply stained; but Dreser could, in his experiments, scarcely 
ever make out a reddening of the nuclei, though the cells were 
often so deeply stained that their outlines were indistinguishable. 
The author’s lengthy discussion of the chemical-physiological 
bearings of his results cannot be given here.—Zeitsch. f. Biol., Bd. 
X41, p: Al. 
A VALUABLE SERIES OF PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNALS.—The library 
of the University of Michigan has recently been enriched by the 
addition of a series of German journals of anatomy and physiol- 
ogy which represents the current progress of those sciences 
almost continuously from 1796 up to the present time. Reil’s 
Archiv f. d. Physiologie was first published in 1796 and contin- 
ued until 1815. Meckel’s Archiv f. d. Physiologie extended from 
1815 to 1823, and was succeeded in 1826 by Meckel’s Archiv f. 
Anat. u. Physiol., which was given up in 1832. Müller's Archiv 
f. Anat. Physiol. u. Wiss. Med., continued from 1834 till 1858, 
and was succeeded by Reichert and DuBois Reymond’s Archiv f. 
Anat. Physiol, u. Wiss. Med., which was published from 1859 till ` 
1876. This in turn was succeeded in 1876 by the Archiv f. Anat. 
u. Physiol., at present edited by Professor DuBois Reymond. 
No physiologist can contemplate this splendid series of works 
without thoughtful and affectionate interest, for it forms the log- 
book of the progress of modern physiology. Reil, in the open- 
ing pages of his first volume written in 1795, strikes the key-note 
' of modern physiological research, and some of his words seem 
like a prophecy which the history of ninety years has fulfilled. 
Says he, “ It is indeed remarkable that physiology, if I exclude 
anatomy from it, has made relatively less progress than almost 
_ any other science and is, for the most part, but a waste of un- 
_ founded or senseless hypotheses. * * * We seek the ex- 
planation of the phenomena of animal life in a supersensuous 
_ substratum, in a soul, in an universal spirit of nature, in a princi- 
ple of vitality, which we picture as something uncorporeal, and 
we are thereby either hampered in our investigation or actually 
astray. * * * * We must no longer regard the animal 
ething of wholly mysterious and unthinkable’ prop- 
