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Page 310 - Times. 13.— Fatigue. By A. Mosso, Professor of Physiology in the University of Turin, Translated by MARGARET DRUMMOND, MA, and WB DRUMMOND, MB, CM, FRCPE, extra Physician, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; Author of "The Child, His Nature and Nurture.
Page 310 - ... the important anthropological theories. No one seems to have been better acquainted with the very great body of facts represented by these sciences.*, — Am, Journal of Sociology, II.
Page 311 - The following volumes are in preparation : Meteors and Comets. By Professor CA YOUNG, Princeton University. The Measurement of the Earth. By Professor CT MENDENHALL, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, formerly Superintendent of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Page 312 - In the present work he devotes one volume broadly to embryology, or the evolution of the individual, and the second to the evolution of the human species, as shown in the comparative anatomy, zoology, and paleontology. The last few chapters deal in detail with the evolution of particular organs right through the animal kingdom: the eye, ear, heart, brain, etc. Every point is richly illustrated from Haeckel's extensive knowledge of every branch of biology and his well-known insistence on comparative...
Page 311 - The Reproduction of Living Beings. By Professor MARCUS HARTOG, Queen's College, Cork. Man and the Higher Apes. By Dr. A. KEITH, FRCS Heredity. By J. ARTHUR THOMPSON, School of Medicine, Edinburgh. Life Areas of North America: A Study in the Distribution of Animals and Plants. By Dr. C. HART MERRIAM, Chief of the Biological Survey, US Department of Agriculture. Age, Growth, Sex, and Death. By Professor CHARLES S. MINOT, Harvard Medical School.
Page 310 - Beddard has done well to devote a whole volume to whales. They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures. The general reader will not And the volume too technical, nor has the author failed in his attempt to produce a book that shall be acceptable to the zoologist and the naturalist."— NY Tima.
Page 310 - The Basis of Social Relations. A Study in Ethnic Psychology. By DANIEL G. BRINTON, AM, MD, LL.D., Sc.D., Late Professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania ; Author of "History of Primitive Religions," " Races and Peoples," " The American Race,
Page 312 - One of the classics of the nineteenth century." The Evolution of Man A Popular Scientific Study By Ernst Haeckel Professor at Jena University Translated from the Fifth (enlarged) Edition by Joseph McCabe Two volumes, 8vo, with 30 Colored Plates and 511 other Illustrations, together with 60 genealogical tables . . Net $10.00 The work is a comprehensive statement of the scientific grounds for evolution as applied to man. It does not deal with religious controversies, and is scientific throughout. The...
Page 311 - A book to be set side by side with Huxley's Essays, whose spirit it carries a step further on the long road towards its goal.
Page 310 - Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology. With special reference to the Invertebrates. By JACQUES LOEB, MD, Professor of Physiology in the University of Chicago. Illustrated. 8°. $1.75. " No student of this most interesting...