REVIEWS. 
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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.* 
U NTIL Professor Owen’s great work came out! in its three volumes, 
Rymer Jones’s work was the best which we had in our language upon 
the entire subject of comparative anatomy. Even still it is the most 
comprehensive hook we possess on the subject of the Invertebrate sub- 
kingdoms of the animal world. Being written in a style which very few 
of our science men possess— a style which is simple and terse, yet wonder- 
fully descriptive and telling — it possesses fof the general student many 
advantages, for the writer makes matters as clear and intelligible as they 
can possibly be ; it possesses, moreover, nearly six hundred admirable en- 
gravings taken from the best writers of the time. It is therefore an ex- 
cellent work so far. But when we ask how much has it been brought up 
to the present day, we are astonished at the answer we are obliged to give. 
In no respect does it represent zoology as it now is. In hardly a single 
instance has the author taken even the faintest trouble to correct or 
modify his remarks, and though he tells us that he has done this in regard 
to the Protozoa and Ccelenterata , we can see not the least evidence of his 
having gone into the matter as he should have done. The same figures, 
the same letters, which twelve or thirteen years ago conveyed the most 
erroneous ideas, convey them still without the faintest alteration or emen- 
dation. This is really too bad in a work professing to be a new edition, 
and published in 1871. The book is simply tout entier the same work 
which was published we fear to say how many years ago. If Professor 
Jones wished to bring out a proper new edition of his work, we doubt not 
he could have found abundance of young, zealous, and accomplished men to 
have undertaken the task. As it is, he has brought out an old work in 
a new cover, and endeavours to lead us to believe that it represents the 
history of the animal woild as we know it in 1871. This has been a sad 
mistake, and one we fancy by which the publisher must most seriously 
suffer. 
THE PROGBESS OF MEDICINE.f 
E VIDENTLY the author of this work tries to do his best. He labours 
very extensively to bring out a Report which shall be useful. Yet he 
fails most seriously. His work is a nondescript collection of all kinds of 
matters relating to medicine, and no one part is complete. The half-yearly 
volumes which we have been accustomed to so long are infinitely and 
* “ General Outline of the Organisation of the Animal Kingdom, and 
Manual of Comparative Anatomy.” By Thomas Rymer Jones, F.R.S., Pro- 
fessor of Comparative Anatomy in King’s College, London ; late Fullerian 
Professor of Physiology to the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Fourth 
edition. London: Van Voorst, 1871. 
t Dr. Dobell’s “Reports on the Progress of Practical and Scientific 
Medicine in different parts of the World.” Contributed by numerous and 
distinguished coadjutors. Vol. II. (from June 1869 to June 1870). Lon- 
don : Longmans, 1871. 
