Those facts which should be included in any good textbook of physiology are reviewed, together with a systematic consideration of the subject matter of general physiology, the neuro-muscular mechanisms, the circulation, respiration, metabolism, excretion, reproduction, and the internal secretions. The book does not afford the more detailed information necessary for the advanced worker. Moreover...

As in the first edition, the authors, all professors and chairmen of departments of pediatrics at their respective institutions, "attempted to provide a readable book in a size that could be read during the limited time allocated during the pediatrics rotation." As a third-year medical student just completing my nine-week pediatric clerkship, I felt well qualified to review this book. The volum...

Carl Zimmer’s The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution, which is advertised as the first textbook about evolution for general readers, is an excellent book that all biologists will want to examine and most will want to buy. It is one of the two best treatments of evolution that I’ve come across for general audiences, and the best textbook I’ve seen for a nonmajors introductory biology cou...

on bacteriology. No radical changes have been made since the last edition, which was reviewed in this Gazette in December 1928. The scope of the work is the same and no new sections have been added. The length of the book is slightly increased. It is a book well suited to the student, whilst giving the necessary details for identification and culture of the various organisms, it does not dwell ...

of the scientist in the service of the state" we gain but a scant impression of the qualities of the Park we knew, for however true such an epigrammatic statement may be it fails to reveal the genial humanitarian spirit which was the essence of the man. Fortunately, Wade Oliver has made this facet of Park's life a dominant note throughout the pages of the book. The important fact is not that Pa...

This book was originally written as a biochemistry textbook for medical, dental, agricultural, and general college students. The present edition is a marked improvement over the first in that a number of errors have been corrected and much worthwhile additional material has been included. The book is outstanding in its simplicity. Facts are stated clearly and concisely, with detailed discussion...

discourse entities have been studied extensively by Asher [2]. Asherdi ers between fact anaphora, event anaphora, concept anaphora and proposi-tion anaphora. For our domain, only the latter is of interest. The DRS construc-tion process we described begs some similarities to the one described in [2]. Amajor di erence is that, due to our domain, (i) we can assume the existence of<...