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series of phenomena whicli are coincident with the arrest of the 
heart's action. It relates not^ merely to experiments and inqui- 
ries upon the heart of Mammalia, but includes a series of valu- 
able researches on the heart of Birds, Eeptiles, and Fishes. The 
Bibliograj)hy includes the titles of papers on this subject, written 
between the years 1842 and 1867 inclusive. The work deserves 
the attention of those who are interested in Brown Sequard's ex- 
periments. 
Handhuch der systematisclien Anatomie des 3Ienschen, von Dr. J. Henle. 
Braunschweig : Yieweg und Sohn, 1868. — Though the treatise of 
the Gottingen Professor is one which for the most part concerns 
the ordinary anatomy of the human body, it is worth notice by 
the microscopical anatomist, from its excellent account of those 
minute and difficult-to-discern structures — the Lymphatics. The 
woodcuts illustrating the anatomy of the body, though they are 
intercalated with the text, have been executed by the new process 
of double blocks, and hence the arteries and veins are coloured. 
It would be well if some English publisher would give us an anato- 
mical work illustrated in a similar manner. 
The Anatomical Memoirs of John Goodsir, F.B.S., late Professor of 
Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by W. Turner, 
M.B. Vol. II. Edinburgh: Black, 1868.— Although the pub- 
lishers of this important work have not favoured us with a copy, 
we cannot, in the interest of our readers, omit giving some account 
of its contents. The following papers, which are reprinted in the 
volume, are of especial interest to microscopists : — " The Origin 
and Development of the Pulps and Sacs of the Human Teeth ; " 
" The Follicular Stage of Dentition in Euminants;" " The Supra- 
renal, Thymus and Thyroid Glands;" " The Morphological Eola- 
tions of the Nervous System in the Annulose and Vertebrate 
Types ; " " Lectures on the Eetina ; " " The Lamina Spiralis of 
the Cochlea;" "The Conferva which vegetates on the Skin of 
Gold Fish;" "The Structure of the Intestinal Villi;" "The 
Testis and its Secretion in Decapodous Crustaceans ; " " The Struc- 
ture of the Serous Membranes ; " " Structure and Pathology of the 
Liver and Kidney ; " " Structure of the Lymphatic Glands ; " 
"Structure of the Placenta and Structure of Bone;" "Mode of 
Eeproduction of lost Parts in the Crustacea ; " " The Anatomy and 
Development of the Cystic Entozoa." The plates which accom- 
pany the volume are about twelve in number, and are simple but 
well drawn. 
Untersuchungen ilher die erste Anlage des WirheltMerleihes, von Wil- 
helm His. Leipzig: Vogel, 1868. — In this magnificent 4to, Pro- 
fessor His gives us a monograph in no way inferior to the great 
work of Von Bar, and certainly the finest thing of the kind that 
any language has produced since the Eussian anatomist published 
his splendid " Epistola De ovi Mammalium." To do anything more 
in the space at our disposal than announce the publication of a 
volume of this kind, which extends over nearly 250 pages, would 
