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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
physiology in English has thus long been a desideratum in our 
schools. Dr. Robert Meade Smith has, however, now amply 
filled the want so long felt, and has done it in as proper a manner 
as the most exacting of critics could demand. 
His work of over nine hundred pages is divided into three 
parts. In the first, the general physiology of cells is extensively 
treated, under three sections, including respectively, their struc¬ 
ture, physics and chemistry. The second part introduces the im¬ 
portant subjects of food, the functions of digestion being minute¬ 
ly described, and the process of rumination receiving careful 
attention, and following this come jn their order the phenomena 
of the circulation and respiration, with the various secretions, 
mammary, renal and cutaneous, and in time the subject of general 
nutrition, and the physiology of motion, to the veterinarian per¬ 
haps the most important of all, and then succeeds the physiology 
of the nervous S 3 7 stem, with that of the various senses, which 
completes this long and very interesting second part. The third 
division is entirely appropriated to the function of reproduction. 
The general make-up of the work is highly creditable to the 
publisher. Four hundred illustrations are introduced, and it is 
altogether a handsome volume. In the preparation of so com¬ 
prehensive and excellent a work, Dr. Smith has of course been 
obliged to avail himself largely of the labors of those who have 
already surveyed the same field, and he does not fail amply to 
acknowledge the fact. We have, for example, in several places 
recognized the work of our former teacher, the great Colin, of 
Alfort, but it would be impossible for this to be otherwise. Dr. 
Smith has conferred a great benefit upon the veterinary profes¬ 
sion by his contribution to their use of a work of immense value, 
and has provided the American veterinary student with the only 
means by which he can become properly familiar with the phy¬ 
siology of our domestic animals. Veterinary practitioners and 
graduates will read it with pleasure. Veterinary students will 
readily acquire needed knowledge from its pages, and veterinary 
schools which would be well equipped for the work they aim to 
perform, cannot ignore it as their text book in physiology. 
