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ternational Association of Academies, and, 

 it should be added, largely due to the ini- 

 tiative of Professor Waldeyer, for the es- 

 tablishment in various countries, of special 

 institutes for the furtherance of research 

 in embryology and neurology. 



These two subjects were first selected 

 owing to the peculiar difficulties of obtain- 

 ing the needed material, and the great labor 

 necessary to prepare the complete series 

 of sections which are required in many 

 eases. These conditions make it impera- 

 tive that if we would avoid large loss of 

 labor and much vexation of spirit, the 

 Avork in these lines should be coordinated, 

 standards adopted and the material of the 

 laboratory, like the books of a library or 

 the specimens in a museum, be available 

 for the use of other investigators. Noth- 

 ing, I believe, is further from the minds 

 of those engaged in this plan than an at- 

 tempt to produce anatomical results on a 

 manufacturing scale. But the questions 

 calling for solution in the fields hei'e desig- 

 nated are so numerous, that such an ar- 

 rangement will merely mean a subdivision 

 of labor in which each institute will take 

 one of the larger problems and direct its 

 main energies to the study of this, so con- 

 ducting the work that it shall be corre- 

 lated w'ith that in progress elsewhere. The 

 director of such an institute will be justi- 

 fied in extending his work through assist- 

 ants just as far as he can carry the details 

 of the different researches in progress, and 

 thus knit them into one piece for the educa- 

 tion of himself and his colleagues. When 

 we pass beyond this limit, admittedly sub- 

 ject to wide individual variation, there is 

 little to be gained, but the evils of excessive 

 production, should they arise, carry within 

 tliemselves the means of their own correc- 

 tion. 



This step, which is assuredly about to 

 l)e taken, should enable us in the future to 

 do things in anatomy not heretofore pos- 



sible, and when, some years hence, there is 

 another gathering of scientific men, with 

 an aim and purpose similar to that of the 

 present one, it is easy to predict that we 

 shall be able to listen to a report on the 

 important advances in anatomy arising 

 from coordinated and cooperative work. 



Henry H. Donaldson. 

 Univehsity of Chicago. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Ideals of Science and Faith. Essays by Vari- 

 ous Authors. Edited by the Ee\'. J. E. 

 Hand, editor of ' Good Citizenship.' New 

 York, Longmans, Green & Co. 1904. 

 Were this book not remarkable in itself, its 

 motive would render it remarkable in any case. 

 We readers of Science devoted, most of us, 

 to absorbing technical subjects, may well pe- 

 ruse it to our great advantage, and realize a 

 few tendencies of the day, unfamiliar to us 

 maj'be, and assuredly not clear in their main 

 outlines. 



The plan of the work is novel, even daring, 

 and conjures up piquant expectancy. It con- 

 sists of ten essays, each from a different hand, 

 and divided into two groups. The first group, 

 of six, under the general title ' Approaches 

 through Science and Education,' deals with 

 the possible contemporary relations between 

 science and religion (relations of an irenical 

 nature) from the standpoint of the lay expert. 

 The subjects, and the authors who speak for 

 them, are as follows : ' Physics,' Sir Oliver 

 Lodge ; ' Biology,' Professor Arthur Thomson, 

 of Aberdeen University; 'Psychology,' Pro- 

 fessor Muirhead, of the University of Bir- 

 mingham ; ' Sociology,' Mr. Victor V. Bran- 

 ford, secretary of the Sociological Society of 

 London ; ' Ethics,' the Hon. Bertrand Russell, 

 fellow of Trinity, Cambridge ; ' General and 

 Technical Education,' Professor Patrick Ged- 

 des. University Hall, Edinburgh. The second 

 group, of four essays, entitled ' Approaches 

 through Faith,' presents the clerical stand- 

 point in its various phases as follows: 'A 

 Presbyterian Approach,' the Pev. John Kcl- 

 man, of Edinburgh ; ' A Church of England 

 Approach,' the Rev. Ronald Bayne; the Rev. 



