64 Recent Literature. [January, ` 
contains an elaborate description of the tissues; an accountof — 
the normal development of the body, and a section upon, mon- 
strosities ; while not the least useful part to those engaged in the © 
medical profession will be that devoted to the method of conduct- _ 
ing post-mortem examinations, and to medico-legal matters gen- 
erally. a 
The work will appear in six sections, two of which, that on 
Histology, by E. O. Shakespeare, M.D., and that on Bones and — 
joints, by Dr. Allen, are already issued. . ee 
The other sections are as follows: m1. Muscles and fascia; | 
Iv. Arteries, veins and lymphatics; v., Nervous system; VL 1 
Organs of sense, of digestion, and genito-urinary organs. The | 
section upon histology contains twelve delicately executed plates 
and numerous woodcuts, and treats fully and. clearly upon the 
lymph, blood, connective tissue, epithelium, cartilage, bone, mus- | 
ele, nervous tissue; etc. a 
In the second section, which is illustrated with thirty plates, — 
an-innovation is introduced which ought to be extensively fol- — 
lowed. Each bone ‘figured is drawn to a scale sufficiently large — 
to enable the names of all the parts, processes, foramina, etc., to 
be printed upon or around them, thus obviating the waste of time 
and lack of precision caused by literal or numbered references. — 
Nothing more complete than the figures and descriptions given — 
of both bones and joints can well be desired, and if the rest of thé 
work is equal to the parts before us, Dr. Allen may be congratu- 
lated upon having to a great extent attained the goal aimed at. — 
The greatest drawback to the work is its high price; small > 
enough, probably, to the well-established physician, but very — 
large to the student and commencing practitioner, to both of — 
whom its acquisition would bea boon. i 
TuHomas’s REPORT ON THE Noxious AND BENEFICIAL INSECTS 
oF Ixi1no1s.—This report is principally composed of that of D. 
W. Coquillet, on the insects of Northern Illinois, and of that of 
Professor G. H. French. The former notes the occurrence 1 
destructive numbers, in the year 1881, of the corn or boll worm 
(Heliothis armigera), the imported currant worm (ematus ventri 
cosus), the gooseberry worm, and the larva of Eupilhecta iter 
rupto-fasciata Packard, the latter of which devours the interior ¢ 
the currant berry. Descriptions of the principal injurious insects 
and their methods of destruction, with an account of their insect 
enemies, and mention of such remedies as have been found use- 
