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PHYSIOLOGY : 
TS PLACE IN EDUCATION. 
Of Dr. Lardner’s Animal Physics we have in a former 
number spoken in terms of commendation, as a first-class 
popular treatise on physiology. 
The Animal Physiology for Schools is evidently an abridge- 
ment of the Animal Physics , reduced to a size which places 
the instruction contained in it within the reach of youth, for 
whom the larger work, excellent as it is for adults, would be 
too elaborate. The smaller work combines the qualities of 
accuracy and clearness of description with cheapness in 
price. The author expresses a hope — 
<e That this volume may be the means of extending in- 
struction in the first notions of animal physiology into 
ladies* schools .... In the selection of subjects and in the 
mode of treating them, the author has kept this constantly 
in view, introducing nothing which may not with perfect 
propriety and advantage be brought before the youngest 
female minds.’* 
We must not omit to say that the book is illustrated with 
one hundred and ninety wood engravings; and that at the 
end of the volume is added a glossary, containing brief 
explanations of the less familiar terms. We expect that, as 
the importance of physiology becomes appreciated by the 
public, this little work will meet with great and merited 
favour. 
Mr. Turner’s Atlas and Handbook of Human Anatomy and 
Physiology is also a work of much merit, but far too expen- 
sive to be likely to come into very general use in schools. 
Its principal value will be to the teacher, who may, with 
much profit, use the Atlas for the purpose of giving occa- 
sional anatomical demonstrations to his pupils. 
Dr. Knox’s treatise is, like that of Mr. Turner, confined 
to human anatomy and physiology. It is an elegant 
book, chiefly remarkable for the manner in which it is illus- 
trated. 
“ The Atlas contains eight plates or engravings represent- 
ing, as in a medallion or coin, both sides; that is, the direct 
and the reverse ; thus giving to the engraving, in so far as 
the art can give, the effect of a natural representation. But 
it also contains other engravings, in which, in addition, 
certain figures have been cut into or dissected, and super- 
imposed, in order to preserve to the eye different layers and 
different surfaces of the same organ. . . . The layers or 
laminae, moveable and articulating upon the principal figure, 
may be raised like the leaves of a book : and the reader may, 
with their assistance, study the apparatus or assemblage of 
organs contributing to a function, dissected layer by layer.” 
