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PIp. vi+48. 4 text-figs. and 15 plates. Price l0s. 6d. net. This book presents a full and ordered account of the method of dissection of the brain by defibrillation or blunt dissection, and some of the results to be obtained by this method are shown in the many illustrations, almost all of which are photographs of actual specimens.Though the method is not new and has been used in England previously by Jamieson and by Green, as far as we know it has not been set out in book form as a laboratory manual until now.The translation appears to be accurate and quite satisfactory, and the set up of the book is very good. The Growth of the Surface Area of the Human Body. By EDITH BOYD. (With a Foreword by RIChARD E. SCAMiMON.) (University of Minnesota. The Institute of Child Welfare, Monograph Series, No. x.) (London: Oxford University Press.) 1935. Pp. x + 145, figs. 50, tables 28. Price 22s. 6d. net.This work, dedicated to John Abernethy, is a comprehensive and exhaustive study of a much-neglected branch of physical anthropology. It deals with the technique for the assessment of the surface area of the human body in both preand post-natal life. The author discusses in detail the various methods available for the evaluation of body area, both by direct measurement and by estimation, the mathematical formulae for relating this area to major bodily dimensions, and the inferences drawn from the growth phases of the area throughout life. Being written largely from the biophysical standpoint the work presupposes a familiarity with the tables, formulae and notations of the biometrician.

PIp. vi+48. 4 text-figs. and 15 plates. Price l0s. 6d. net. This book presents a full and ordered account of the method of dissection of the brain by defibrillation or blunt dissection, and some of the results to be obtained by this method are shown in the many illustrations, almost all of which are photographs of actual specimens.Though the method is not new and has been used in England previously by Jamieson and by Green, as far as we know it has not been set out in book form as a laboratory manual until now.The translation appears to be accurate and quite satisfactory, and the set up of the book is very good. The Growth of the Surface Area of the Human Body. By EDITH BOYD. (With a Foreword by RIChARD E. SCAMiMON.) (University of Minnesota. The Institute of Child Welfare, Monograph Series, No. x.) (London: Oxford University Press.) 1935. Pp. x + 145, figs. 50, tables 28. Price 22s. 6d. net.This work, dedicated to John Abernethy, is a comprehensive and exhaustive study of a much-neglected branch of physical anthropology. It deals with the technique for the assessment of the surface area of the human body in both preand post-natal life. The author discusses in detail the various methods available for the evaluation of body area, both by direct measurement and by estimation, the mathematical formulae for relating this area to major bodily dimensions, and the inferences drawn from the growth phases of the area throughout life. Being written largely from the biophysical standpoint the work presupposes a familiarity with the tables, formulae and notations of the biometrician.

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