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writes of The Songs of Labour,' and Miss Ella
C. Sykes of her experiences ' At a Women's Hostel
THE LIBRARY formed early in the tator. The other sections
are headed
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The collection includes a copy of Levi friendship and love lost and gained and
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Tom the Fiddler,' by Sir A. Scott Reid ;
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May will be The Austere Attraction of Burgos,' to put the house into the same condition recent novel 'The Rhodesian. ' In anim-
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In the May number of The Positivist Review
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Mr. F. J. Gould contributes an article on The in view of the Titanic catastrophe should and Book World, the first number of
Dead and the Living are One'; and Dr. Desch
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THE forthcoming number of Science Progress
THE next number of The Edinburgh
will begin the sixth volume. Prof. Lydekker
contributes a paper on Vertebrate Palæontology Review will appear under the control AMONG the books just published in
in 1911'; Dr. Ralph Vincent writes on · Fallacies of new editor, Mr. Harold Cox, Paris are “Newman Catholique d'après
in the Report of the Royal Commission on Tuber-
culosis,' and Dr. Charles Walker on Theories and
the sixth in succession to
succession to Francis des Documents nouveaux,' by M. Paul
Problems of Cancer'; while amongst the other Jeffrey, who held the reins from the Thureau - Dangin, and L'Irlande et le
articles will be two of educational interest : foundation of the Review in 1802 down Home Rule,' by MM. L. Maisonnier and
* Greek at Oxford' and 'Science and the Average
Boy. '
to 1829. The succeeding editors were G. Lecarpentier.
as
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we
a
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on
vented by enveloping the blood, the dilu- Bain (James L. Macbeth), CORPUS MEUM
tions of culture, and the mixtures of serum
(THIS IS MY BODY), 2/6
SCIENCE
and culture, in oil. He has conclusively
Lund, Humphries & Co.
proved that Metchnikoff's statement is Cheap edition of a quaint and oxag,
wide of the mark. The author naturally gerated thesis setting forth the great
gives a good deal of space to the descrip- spiritual doctrine of the work of nutrition. "
Handbook of the Technique of the Teat and tion of the opsonic power of the blood, Eugenics Review, April, 1/ net.
Capillary Glass Tube, and its Applica- the discovery of this property being his India, Geological Survey Records, Vol. XLI.
tions in Medicine and Bacteriology. By own. He it was who first pointed out the Part IV. , 1 rupeo. Calcutta, Geological
Sir A. E. Wright. (Constable & Co. ) significance for diagnosis of the opsonic Survey of India; London, Kegan Paul
index in the treatment of tuberculosis. Contains minute and erudite information
This book has been written for two dif- The fatal effects of Koch’s tuberculin upon the geology of the Henzada district,
ferent classes of laboratory workers : when it was first introduced were due Burma, and of the Lonar Lake, and the
first, for the man who wants a ready to the fact that the doses given were far Pegu-Eocene succession in the Minbu dis-
made technique for measuring this or
too large; Sir Almroth regulated them
trict near Ngape. There are also a report
that function of the blood ; and, secondly, by means of the opsonic index, and
on the Eleventh International Geological
for the research worker who wants to thus prevented the patient from receiving number of miscellaneous notes.
Congress, held in Stockholm in 1910, and a
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The opsonic index shows the physician
This volume is a nice blend of the practical,
progress in the domain of practical are
against any particular
particular microbe. the epicurean, and the statistical. All these
medicine.
Small doses produce a far better effect, channels of opinion converge into the main
In our issue of March 30th we drew and the practice of giving them has now stream—the subject of beverages, on which
attention to the Theory of Immunity, become universal.
human thought has in all ages been much
exercised.
and we pointed out the lines along which It
The author is comprehensive in
appears that in counting the number
our knowledge of this subject is likely of bacteria which have been ingested by his discussions. Even the modest refresh-
receives adequate and
to be .
the white cells of the blood, the observer
reverent treatment. Many pages would not
In the present volume find
may be led astray, and the author gives have been unpleasing to Meredith.
detailed and interesting description of the an admirable description of (a) the func- Redmayne (J. S. ), FRUIT FARMING ON THE
method by which the protective sub- tional error, and (b) the error of chance.
“ DRY BELT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,
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Written principally for intending settlers,
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paper
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fever ; he pointed out that, by using the number of leucocytes which require There are nine appendixes, a map, a list
a mark placed anywhere on the stem of to be counted in the opsonic film. At the of textbooks and authorities, and numerous
illustrations.
a simple pipette and an air-bubble index, end of his argument the author says :-
we can make any required dilution of the
* The handing over of the adjudication Shennan (Theodore), Post MORTEMS AND
MORBID ANATOMY, 18/ net. Constable
serum, mix it in accurately measured of medical results to the lay mathematician
quantities with the typhoid or any other has in the past produced deplorable effects.
This book is chiefly written for students,
culture, and then with the naked eye read Coming in as he does into medicine, not practitioners, and teachers of pathology.
off the result on the pipette.
only without appreciation of the magnitude Particular attention is paid to morbid
of the functional errors which attach to anatomy as studied in the post-mortem
The author points out that when blood- ordinary medical diagnosis, and setting up, room, and microscopical and bacteriological
fluids are brought into contact with as he has done, a Utopian standard of aspects of disease also considered.
bacterial cultures these may be affected accomplishment and certitude for biological Busy practitioners will find it an excellent
book for reference, essentially practical and
ą variety of ways. The bacteria work, he in reality makes common cause
which were before separate may adhere
with those clinicians who, while they take not too long. It is beautifully illustrated
no account of the enormous working error
with original plates, which will enhance
to form clumps (agglutination effect). of clinical methods, set up for laboratory its value. Prof. Shennan has compiled a
They may be killed without being methods a fantastic standard of infallibility. ” Bibliography of the more important original
dissolved (bactericidal effect). They may We are inclined to sympathize with the papers which appeared from January, 1908,
be dissolved in the blood-fluids (bac- laboratory worker in his struggles with journals published in this country, North
to August, 1911, in the principal medical
teriolytic effect); and they may be so
altered as to be readily ingested by is not an exact science in the sense that
the mathematical statistician. Biology America, France, and Germany.
phagocytes (opsonic effect). Each of mathematics is, and we should be grateful
United States National Herbarium: Vol. XIII.
these effects can be obtained independently for any work which helps men of science
Part XII. NEW NOTEWORTHY
of the others. We are not at present to elucidate the problem of immunity.
PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL
able to isolate these active substances from
AMER CA, NO. 3, by Henry Pittier ; Vol.
XIV. Part III. THE GRAMA GRASSES :
the blood, but there can be no doubt
BOUTELOUA AND RELATED GENERA, by
that it possesses the various powers
David Griffiths; and Vol. XVI. Part İ.
which have been described above; and NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, by William
that the condition of immunity to infec-
R. Maxon, J. N. Rose, P. C. Standley,
tious diseases is largely due to these
(Notico in these columns does not preclude longer and R. S. Williams.
review. )
properties of the blood, which, as it were,
Washington, Government Printing Office
guard the body from the attacks of micro- Bahr (P. H. ), REPORT TO THE LONDON United States National Museum, Bulletin 77 :
organisms. The great advantage of Sir
SchooL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE ON
THE EARLY PALEOZOIC BRYOZOA OF THE
Almroth's method is that, for instance,
INVESTIGATIONS ON DYSENTERY IN FIJI
BALTIC PROVINCES, by Ray S. Bassler.
DURING THE YEAR 1910, TOGETHER WITH
the bactericidal power of the patient's
Washington, Government Printing Office
AN ACCOUNT OF THE OCCURRENCE AND
blood can be actually demonstrated in SPREAD OF DYSENTERY IN THE PACIFIC | Wright (J. ), TESTING, FAULT LOCALIZATION,
the glass tube.
IN FORMER YEARS, by B. Glanvill Corney, AND GENERAL HINTS FOR WIREMEN,
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The fruits of thirteen months' study of A useful and condensed summary of un-
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not exert a batericidal
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on the most comprehensive scale, and have the like, which will be found adequate and
wireman. ':
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It does not pretend to analytic explanation.
are
in
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Mox. Institute of British Architects, 8. -'The Royal Institute
Early Life and Work,' Lecture II. , Mr. R. Gosse.
between Two Attributes,' Mr. G. U. Yule.
Alloys
-
-
Moir and Prof. A. Keith.
Fletcher
66
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
plants is undoubtedly the soil, and the metal
SOCIETIES.
must therefore be more widely spread
ASTRONOMICAL. -April 12. -Dr. F. W. Dyson,
Library and some of its Contents,' Mr. 0. E. Townsend. throughout nature than was at one time
President, in the chair. The following, papers
Geographical, 8. 80.
Tues. Royal Institution, 3. -Algernon Charles Swinburne: his supposed.
were partly read : Mr. E. E. Barnard, Recent
THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND
Observations of Nova Cygni (1876). ' Measures
Statistical, 5. - On the Methods of measuring Association
THE ROYAL
of stars near the Nova showed but slight evidence
Faraday, 8. -General Discussion on Magnetic Properties of
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY have jointly under-
of motion; the Nova itself appeared to have
taken the publication in volume form the
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on 'The Re-
become stationary in brightness. -Mr. E. E.
modelling and Equipment of Madras Harbour,' and 'The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel.
Barnard, Micrometrical Measures and Focal
Peculiarities of Nova Lacertæ (Espin). ' It
Anthropological Institute. 8. 16. " Pre-Boulder Clay Man,' Mr. These papers are scattered in various volumes
appeared that the Nova existed as a star of the
of the Philosophical Transactions, and a
Zoological, 8. 20,-'A First Account of the Courtship of the
thirteenth magnitude as far back as 1893. —Cam-
Redishank (Totanus calidris). ' Mr. J. 8. Huxley; ' Amphipoda collected edition of the kind was contem.
from Bremerhaven, Mrs. E. W. Sexton ; 'Descriptions of
bridge Observatory, ‘Photographs of the Spectrum
New Fishes of the Family Loricariidæ in the British plated by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, son of Sir
of Nova Geminorum. ' Prof. Newall and Mr.
Museum Collection, Mr. 0. Tate Regan; "The Circu.
latory system of the Common Grass-Snake (Tropidonotus William, but was not proceeded with, on
Stratton showed a series of photographs, and
natrix), Mr. 0. H. O'Donoghue.
pointed out the remarkable changes that had WED. British Numismatic 8. - The Pre-Revolutionary Coinage of
account of the cost of the work. The two
America, 1884-1774, Dr. P. Nelson,
occurred in the spectrum since the star appeared.
volumes which will appear very shortly will
Society of Arts, 8. - Technical Education in Ireland,' Mr. G.
-Prof. Fowler read a paper by Mr. Curtis on
contain not only the records of Herschel's
* The Spectrum of the Nova,' and showed photo-
Tuuks. Royal Institution, 3. -'Synthetic Ammonia and Nitric Acid
from the Atmosphere,' Lecture II. , Prof. A. W. Crossley. astronomical observations--those of double
graphs. -The President showed and described Royal 4. 30. - 'The Diffusion and Mobility of lons in
the series of photographs of Nova Geminorum
a Magnetic Field,' Prof. J. 8. Townsend ;. On the
stars and nebulæ have been revised and
Observed Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a
taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
corrected as seemed advisable—but also
Precision Balance,' Mr. J. J. Mapley: On the Torque pro-
and explained the use of a grating placed over
duced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refraction through a autobiographical memoranda and incidents
Glass Plate, Dr. Guy Barlow; 'Contributions to the Study
the object-glass for photometric observations. -
of Plicker, Paper IlI. , Dr. T. C. Porter.
of his life and career hitherto unpublished.
Father Cortie and Mr. Storey gave accounts of
Society of Arts, 4.
Little Guides, 2/6 net.
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Lambros and M. de Gubernatis were there,
Sports and Pastimes.
Our trade is strangled by the ex- and
excellent papers
were read,
25 On the Court and Off, by Anthony F.
orbitant charges of private monopolists. ” especially one by Prof. F. von Luschan on
Wilding, 5/ net.
Methuen
-P. 168.
JUNE
Political Economy.
the anthropology of Asia Minor, illustrated
1 Political Economy, by Charles Gide,
“ The artificial control of prices is a by many types, of which Cardinal Nowman
Authorized Translation by C. H. M. Archibald,
marked and rapidly growing feature of afforded the last striking specimen, and the 8/0 net.
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tion by an ever-decreasing number of
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assisted by Mlle. Chapuzet, with Notes, Vocabu-
competent artist has discovered
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Parthenon. In addition to the Crown Prince, drums are still lying in their order as they 24 A Semi-detached Marriage, by Margaret
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Alston Rivers
of the University (M. Lambros), all of of 1687, was in the minds of all; and we
24 Tower Hill Mystery, by A. Wilson-Barrett,
6/
Ward & Lock
whom spoke in Greek, thore were only three cannot but think that an appeal to the 24 The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoievsky,
speeches by foreigners in French by educated people of Europe would produce translated by Mrs. Garnett, 3/8 Heinemann
M. Collignon, in German by Prof. Delbrück, any day enough to defray the expense. 25 Kingfisher Blue, by Halliwell Sutcliffe, 6/
and in English by Dr. Mahaffy. The Englishmen especially, whose countrymen
Smith & Elder
Frenchman was, of course, polished and aided largely in the defacing of this matchless by Horace Annesley Vachell, 61
25 Blinds Down : a Chronicle of Charminster,
Smith & Elder
graceful; the German somewhat pompous, building, should feel a special obligation 25 The Mender, by Amy Le Feuvre, Leisure
the Englishman, in a lighter and simpler' to help in its restoration.
Hour Library, ed.
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Literary Gossip.
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APRIL
General Literature.
Macvey Napier, William Empson, George
Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, and
24 Studies and Appreciations, by William
Arthur Elliot.
Sharp, New Edition, 5/ net.
Heinemann
24 Divorce, by Lord Russell, 2,6 net.
Heinemann
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. AND THE
24 Home University Library : Conservatism,
THE KING has appointed two new MEDICI SOCIETY wish to remedy a regret-
by Lord Hugh Cecil ; Agriculture, by Prof. w members of the Royal Commission on
Somerville Medieval English Literature, by Historical MSS. , namely, Mr. James Mills, of Printing, noticed by us to-day. The
table oversight in a detail of 'The Revival
by Prof. J. G. McKendrick ; The English Lan- / the Deputy - Keeper of the Records two pages illustrating the founts of type
guage, by L. Pearsall Smith ; Matter and Energy, in Ireland—doubtless with special refer originated by Dr. Fell accompany the
by F. Soddy ; Buddhism, by Mrs. Rhys Davids;
The American Civil War, by Prof. F. L. Paxson ;
ence to the work in that country-and bibliography of the Daniel Press without
Psychology, by Prof. W. McDougall; and Non Mr. R. A. Roberts, Secretary of the Public any direct acknowledgment that this was
conformity, its Origin and Progress, by Principal Record Office, who has resigned
Selbie, 1/ net each.
the made possible by Mr. Horace Hart of the
25 Penalties upon Opinion ; or, Some Records Secretaryship of the Commission, an office Clarendon Press, who very kindly set the
of the Laws of Heresy and Blasphemy, by Hy in which he is succeeded by his colleague
patia Bradlaugh Bonner, Od. net.
Watts in the Record Office, Mr. Alfred E. Stamp. acknowledgment of indebtedness to Mr.
30 The Statesman's Year-Book for 1912,
edited by J. Scott Keltic, 10/6 net. Macmillan
Hart does not cover adequately the
MAY
Mr. Roberts, during his tenure of the assistance he rendered in this connexion.
1 A Little Book of German Wisdom, selected Secretaryship of the Commission since
by the Rev. Claud Field, 3/6 net. Harrap the death of Mr. Cartwright in 1903, MR. W. R. REINICK, of the Department
has superintended the compilation and of Public Documents in the Free Library of
issue of nearly 60 volumes of Reports, Philadelphia, has made a second contribu-
dealing with every kind of collection of tion to Insects destructive to Books. '
NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINES.
manuscripts-private, ecclesiastical, and
MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER announce for
IN The Cornhill Magazine for May appear the municipal—and has been specially re-
customary instalments of Blinds Down, by Mr. sponsible for the Elizabethan Calendar immediate publication ‘The Brain of the
Horace Annesley Vachell, and · The Grip of Life,' of Cecil MSS. at Hatfield House, of which Nation, and Other Verses,'
by Mr. Charles
historical material is brought forward in Joan nine volumes have appeared under his L. Graves, author of The Hawarden
to Amin Letters;' by the Comtesse d'Oilliamson, editorship. Much attention has also been Horace. ' The volume takes its title from
Literbaithre nate is a breasted by Mre andrewe danes given during his time to the form of the the first of a group of political pieces which
Realism in Fiction,' by Mr. A. c. Benson, and Reports and the general improvement of includes · The Rule of King Gombeen’
John Stuart Mill and Browning's Pauline," the indexes.
and the · Lines on a Lost Leader,' after
by Miss M. A. Phillips. Sir Laurence Gomme
Goldsmith, which appeared in The Spec-
writes of The Songs of Labour,' and Miss Ella
C. Sykes of her experiences ' At a Women's Hostel
THE LIBRARY formed early in the tator. The other sections
are headed
in Canada. ' Dr. Stephen Paget discusses the nineteenth century by the Rev. Lewis Appreciations,' Holiday Rhymes,'
standpoint of the eugenists in Heredity and Way—who took an active part in his
Way-who took an active part in his Studies in Discipleship,' and 'Varia. '
story by Miss D. K. Broster. In the instalment day in the conversion of the Jews-con-
of Sixty Years in the Wilderness? Sir Henry sisting chiefly of Hebrew books and
UNDER the title 'Kingfisher Blue'
Pasha, and from General Boulanger to personalia literature relating to the Jews, will be the same firm will publish next Thursday
of 1889-90.
sold by, Messrs. Hodgson next Friday. a story by Mr. Halliwell Sutcliffe of
The collection includes a copy of Levi friendship and love lost and gained and
THE May number of Chambers's Journal will
contain the following articles : * The Cahusac ben Gerson's 'Commentary on the Penta- nobly renounced, and the relinquish-
XXI. -XXIV. ; Some Adventures of Sergeant and a few interesting Oriental MSS. ,
Mystery's by K. and Hesketh Prichard, chaps. teuch,' printed at Mantua before 1480, ment of personal desires at the call of
patriotism.
Sparks of the Mounted Police,' by Reginald
Old ,' ;
well as Sir Kenelm Digby's copy of the
"Man-Eating Sharks," by Day Allen Willey: Septuagint (Rome, 1587) in a morocco Prof. Morgan is editing on behalf of the
THE book on the Irish Question which
The Aristocrat, by Miss Muriel Currey: The binding, with the inscription “ Vacate et
Eggs and Nests," by the Hon. Gladys_Graham Videte,” in Digby's own autograph, on of preparation, and will be published by
Eighty Club is now in an advanced state
Murray A Mosquito-Proof Tent in New Zea-
land';
the title.
Tom the Fiddler,' by Sir A. Scott Reid ;
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton about the
'The Rotten Made Sound,' by Prof. Hugh Walker;
The Romance of collecting War-Medals,' ; THE purchase of the Orchard House at end of this month, under the title of The
Animals of my Atlas '; "The Carrying of the Concord as a memorial of Louisa May
New Irish Constitution : an Exposition
Kelp,' by Miss Helen Porter ; The Heart of
Things,' by Henry Leach ; British Captains
Alcott is now completed, the Committee and some Arguments. '
in Polar Russia,' by the Rev. R. , S. Latimer; having received contributions to the
MESSRS. HURST & BLACK ETT inform
and 'The Month : Science and Arts. '
amount of 1,2001. from all parts of America,
us that they are now issuing a third
AMONG the contents of Harper's Magazine for from England, and Italy. It is proposed large edition of Miss Gertrude Page's
May will be The Austere Attraction of Burgos,' to put the house into the same condition recent novel 'The Rhodesian. ' In anim-
by W. D. Howells ; 'An Invitation,' a poem, by
Richard Le Gallienne ; _ 'The Spirit of 1812,' by
as when the Alcott family lived there. adverting on our notice of the book, they
James Barnes, The' Die of Fate, by Howard More money is still wanted for an endow- say that it is being widely read, not
Pyle ; 'Your United States,' Second Paper, by ment fund.
Arnold Bennett ; Marie and the Talk Trust,'
only in this country, but also throughout
by Irving Bacheller ; ' Reanchoring the Home,' by
the British dominions, where its grasp
Robert W. Bruère, formerly General Agent of the AMONG the Friday Evening Lectures at of the Imperial spirit is thoroughly
New York Association for Improving the Condi- the Royal Institution for the session after
tion of the Poor ; 'A Transformation Scene,' a
appreciated
story by Henry W. Nevinson; and the seventh
Easter is one on May 31st by Prof.
paper on Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine. Howard Barnes, on 'Icebergs and their MESSRS. STANLEY PAUL & Co. announce
Location in Navigation. It will be illus- that in future, beginning with the May
In the May number of The Positivist Review
Mr. Frederic Harrison writes on Theism ';
trated by lantern-slides and models, and issue, they will publish The Librarian
Mr. F. J. Gould contributes an article on The in view of the Titanic catastrophe should and Book World, the first number of
Dead and the Living are One'; and Dr. Desch
be well attended.
which appeared under the title of The
discusses 'The Siniplicity of Natural Laws. '
Librarian about two years ago.
THE forthcoming number of Science Progress
THE next number of The Edinburgh
will begin the sixth volume. Prof. Lydekker
contributes a paper on Vertebrate Palæontology Review will appear under the control AMONG the books just published in
in 1911'; Dr. Ralph Vincent writes on · Fallacies of new editor, Mr. Harold Cox, Paris are “Newman Catholique d'après
in the Report of the Royal Commission on Tuber-
culosis,' and Dr. Charles Walker on Theories and
the sixth in succession to
succession to Francis des Documents nouveaux,' by M. Paul
Problems of Cancer'; while amongst the other Jeffrey, who held the reins from the Thureau - Dangin, and L'Irlande et le
articles will be two of educational interest : foundation of the Review in 1802 down Home Rule,' by MM. L. Maisonnier and
* Greek at Oxford' and 'Science and the Average
Boy. '
to 1829. The succeeding editors were G. Lecarpentier.
as
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on
vented by enveloping the blood, the dilu- Bain (James L. Macbeth), CORPUS MEUM
tions of culture, and the mixtures of serum
(THIS IS MY BODY), 2/6
SCIENCE
and culture, in oil. He has conclusively
Lund, Humphries & Co.
proved that Metchnikoff's statement is Cheap edition of a quaint and oxag,
wide of the mark. The author naturally gerated thesis setting forth the great
gives a good deal of space to the descrip- spiritual doctrine of the work of nutrition. "
Handbook of the Technique of the Teat and tion of the opsonic power of the blood, Eugenics Review, April, 1/ net.
Capillary Glass Tube, and its Applica- the discovery of this property being his India, Geological Survey Records, Vol. XLI.
tions in Medicine and Bacteriology. By own. He it was who first pointed out the Part IV. , 1 rupeo. Calcutta, Geological
Sir A. E. Wright. (Constable & Co. ) significance for diagnosis of the opsonic Survey of India; London, Kegan Paul
index in the treatment of tuberculosis. Contains minute and erudite information
This book has been written for two dif- The fatal effects of Koch’s tuberculin upon the geology of the Henzada district,
ferent classes of laboratory workers : when it was first introduced were due Burma, and of the Lonar Lake, and the
first, for the man who wants a ready to the fact that the doses given were far Pegu-Eocene succession in the Minbu dis-
made technique for measuring this or
too large; Sir Almroth regulated them
trict near Ngape. There are also a report
that function of the blood ; and, secondly, by means of the opsonic index, and
on the Eleventh International Geological
for the research worker who wants to thus prevented the patient from receiving number of miscellaneous notes.
Congress, held in Stockholm in 1910, and a
know what existing technique is at our
command, and in what directions this upset the delicate mechanism of immunity. Murray (J. Alan), BEVERAGES, 1/ net.
technique is likely to be amplified, now
Constable
that science is making such rapid what the resisting powers of the patient the asthetic, the medical, the physiological,
The opsonic index shows the physician
This volume is a nice blend of the practical,
progress in the domain of practical are
against any particular
particular microbe. the epicurean, and the statistical. All these
medicine.
Small doses produce a far better effect, channels of opinion converge into the main
In our issue of March 30th we drew and the practice of giving them has now stream—the subject of beverages, on which
attention to the Theory of Immunity, become universal.
human thought has in all ages been much
exercised.
and we pointed out the lines along which It
The author is comprehensive in
appears that in counting the number
our knowledge of this subject is likely of bacteria which have been ingested by his discussions. Even the modest refresh-
receives adequate and
to be .
the white cells of the blood, the observer
reverent treatment. Many pages would not
In the present volume find
may be led astray, and the author gives have been unpleasing to Meredith.
detailed and interesting description of the an admirable description of (a) the func- Redmayne (J. S. ), FRUIT FARMING ON THE
method by which the protective sub- tional error, and (b) the error of chance.
“ DRY BELT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA,
stances in the blood can be measured. The Appendix contains a carefully 2/6 net.
Times ? Book Club
This ingenious system was described argued chapter on the contention of the
Written principally for intending settlers,
by Sir Almroth Wright in 1897 in a mathematical statistician that he has this book contains a great mass of informa-
paper
Widal's test for typhoid authority to pronounce judgment upon tion--historical, theoretical, and practical.
fever ; he pointed out that, by using the number of leucocytes which require There are nine appendixes, a map, a list
a mark placed anywhere on the stem of to be counted in the opsonic film. At the of textbooks and authorities, and numerous
illustrations.
a simple pipette and an air-bubble index, end of his argument the author says :-
we can make any required dilution of the
* The handing over of the adjudication Shennan (Theodore), Post MORTEMS AND
MORBID ANATOMY, 18/ net. Constable
serum, mix it in accurately measured of medical results to the lay mathematician
quantities with the typhoid or any other has in the past produced deplorable effects.
This book is chiefly written for students,
culture, and then with the naked eye read Coming in as he does into medicine, not practitioners, and teachers of pathology.
off the result on the pipette.
only without appreciation of the magnitude Particular attention is paid to morbid
of the functional errors which attach to anatomy as studied in the post-mortem
The author points out that when blood- ordinary medical diagnosis, and setting up, room, and microscopical and bacteriological
fluids are brought into contact with as he has done, a Utopian standard of aspects of disease also considered.
bacterial cultures these may be affected accomplishment and certitude for biological Busy practitioners will find it an excellent
book for reference, essentially practical and
ą variety of ways. The bacteria work, he in reality makes common cause
which were before separate may adhere
with those clinicians who, while they take not too long. It is beautifully illustrated
no account of the enormous working error
with original plates, which will enhance
to form clumps (agglutination effect). of clinical methods, set up for laboratory its value. Prof. Shennan has compiled a
They may be killed without being methods a fantastic standard of infallibility. ” Bibliography of the more important original
dissolved (bactericidal effect). They may We are inclined to sympathize with the papers which appeared from January, 1908,
be dissolved in the blood-fluids (bac- laboratory worker in his struggles with journals published in this country, North
to August, 1911, in the principal medical
teriolytic effect); and they may be so
altered as to be readily ingested by is not an exact science in the sense that
the mathematical statistician. Biology America, France, and Germany.
phagocytes (opsonic effect). Each of mathematics is, and we should be grateful
United States National Herbarium: Vol. XIII.
these effects can be obtained independently for any work which helps men of science
Part XII. NEW NOTEWORTHY
of the others. We are not at present to elucidate the problem of immunity.
PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL
able to isolate these active substances from
AMER CA, NO. 3, by Henry Pittier ; Vol.
XIV. Part III. THE GRAMA GRASSES :
the blood, but there can be no doubt
BOUTELOUA AND RELATED GENERA, by
that it possesses the various powers
David Griffiths; and Vol. XVI. Part İ.
which have been described above; and NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, by William
that the condition of immunity to infec-
R. Maxon, J. N. Rose, P. C. Standley,
tious diseases is largely due to these
(Notico in these columns does not preclude longer and R. S. Williams.
review. )
properties of the blood, which, as it were,
Washington, Government Printing Office
guard the body from the attacks of micro- Bahr (P. H. ), REPORT TO THE LONDON United States National Museum, Bulletin 77 :
organisms. The great advantage of Sir
SchooL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE ON
THE EARLY PALEOZOIC BRYOZOA OF THE
Almroth's method is that, for instance,
INVESTIGATIONS ON DYSENTERY IN FIJI
BALTIC PROVINCES, by Ray S. Bassler.
DURING THE YEAR 1910, TOGETHER WITH
the bactericidal power of the patient's
Washington, Government Printing Office
AN ACCOUNT OF THE OCCURRENCE AND
blood can be actually demonstrated in SPREAD OF DYSENTERY IN THE PACIFIC | Wright (J. ), TESTING, FAULT LOCALIZATION,
the glass tube.
IN FORMER YEARS, by B. Glanvill Corney, AND GENERAL HINTS FOR WIREMEN,
The author devised an interesting experi-
6/ net.
Witherby
1/ net.
Constable
ment in order to put to the test a state-
The fruits of thirteen months' study of A useful and condensed summary of un-
ment of Metchnikoff that the blood does dysentery in Fiji. Investigations have been orthodox tests, hints on locating trouble and
not exert a batericidal
effect under anae- yielded valuable medical results. There are informing, for the average
on the most comprehensive scale, and have the like, which will be found adequate and
wireman. ':
robic conditions. Access of air was pre- ! copious illustrative plates and charts.
It does not pretend to analytic explanation.
are
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Mox. Institute of British Architects, 8. -'The Royal Institute
Early Life and Work,' Lecture II. , Mr. R. Gosse.
between Two Attributes,' Mr. G. U. Yule.
Alloys
-
-
Moir and Prof. A. Keith.
Fletcher
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
plants is undoubtedly the soil, and the metal
SOCIETIES.
must therefore be more widely spread
ASTRONOMICAL. -April 12. -Dr. F. W. Dyson,
Library and some of its Contents,' Mr. 0. E. Townsend. throughout nature than was at one time
President, in the chair. The following, papers
Geographical, 8. 80.
Tues. Royal Institution, 3. -Algernon Charles Swinburne: his supposed.
were partly read : Mr. E. E. Barnard, Recent
THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND
Observations of Nova Cygni (1876). ' Measures
Statistical, 5. - On the Methods of measuring Association
THE ROYAL
of stars near the Nova showed but slight evidence
Faraday, 8. -General Discussion on Magnetic Properties of
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY have jointly under-
of motion; the Nova itself appeared to have
taken the publication in volume form the
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -Discussion on 'The Re-
become stationary in brightness. -Mr. E. E.
modelling and Equipment of Madras Harbour,' and 'The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel.
Barnard, Micrometrical Measures and Focal
Peculiarities of Nova Lacertæ (Espin). ' It
Anthropological Institute. 8. 16. " Pre-Boulder Clay Man,' Mr. These papers are scattered in various volumes
appeared that the Nova existed as a star of the
of the Philosophical Transactions, and a
Zoological, 8. 20,-'A First Account of the Courtship of the
thirteenth magnitude as far back as 1893. —Cam-
Redishank (Totanus calidris). ' Mr. J. 8. Huxley; ' Amphipoda collected edition of the kind was contem.
from Bremerhaven, Mrs. E. W. Sexton ; 'Descriptions of
bridge Observatory, ‘Photographs of the Spectrum
New Fishes of the Family Loricariidæ in the British plated by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, son of Sir
of Nova Geminorum. ' Prof. Newall and Mr.
Museum Collection, Mr. 0. Tate Regan; "The Circu.
latory system of the Common Grass-Snake (Tropidonotus William, but was not proceeded with, on
Stratton showed a series of photographs, and
natrix), Mr. 0. H. O'Donoghue.
pointed out the remarkable changes that had WED. British Numismatic 8. - The Pre-Revolutionary Coinage of
account of the cost of the work. The two
America, 1884-1774, Dr. P. Nelson,
occurred in the spectrum since the star appeared.
volumes which will appear very shortly will
Society of Arts, 8. - Technical Education in Ireland,' Mr. G.
-Prof. Fowler read a paper by Mr. Curtis on
contain not only the records of Herschel's
* The Spectrum of the Nova,' and showed photo-
Tuuks. Royal Institution, 3. -'Synthetic Ammonia and Nitric Acid
from the Atmosphere,' Lecture II. , Prof. A. W. Crossley. astronomical observations--those of double
graphs. -The President showed and described Royal 4. 30. - 'The Diffusion and Mobility of lons in
the series of photographs of Nova Geminorum
a Magnetic Field,' Prof. J. 8. Townsend ;. On the
stars and nebulæ have been revised and
Observed Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a
taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
corrected as seemed advisable—but also
Precision Balance,' Mr. J. J. Mapley: On the Torque pro-
and explained the use of a grating placed over
duced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refraction through a autobiographical memoranda and incidents
Glass Plate, Dr. Guy Barlow; 'Contributions to the Study
the object-glass for photometric observations. -
of Plicker, Paper IlI. , Dr. T. C. Porter.
of his life and career hitherto unpublished.
Father Cortie and Mr. Storey gave accounts of
Society of Arts, 4.
