(1) Muscular Movement in Man: the Factors governing Speed and Recovery from Fatigue (2) Living Machinery: Six Lectures delivered before a ‘Juvenile Auditory’ at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1926 (3) Basal Metabolism in Health and Disease

Abstract

(1) TT is not many years since critics of academic physiological research work were accustomed to illustrate their arguments by referring to the uselessness of the investigations which were being made on muscle function. It has now become clear that these investigations laid down basic knowledge which to-day underlies the scientific study of muscular activity in athletics, medical science, and industrial problems. In the preface of his book, “Muscular Movement in Man,” Prof. A. V. Hill recounts an experience in America when, on being challenged by a member of the audience at the conclusion of a lecture to prove the value of his work, he replied that he performed experiments because tney were amusing. While it is apparent that Prof. Hill finds great amusement in his investigations, yet few physiologists are able to demonstrate the application of their work to the elucidation of practical problems as Prof. Hill has done in his recent publications.

(1) Muscular Movement in Man: the Factors governing Speed and Recovery from Fatigue.

By Prof. A. V. Hill. (The George Fisher Baker Non-resident Lectureship in Chemistry at Cornell University, Vol. 3.) Pp. vi + 104 + 5 plates. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1927.) 12s. 6d. net.

(2) Living Machinery: Six Lectures delivered before a ‘Juvenile Auditory’ at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1926.

By Prof. A. V. Hill. Pp. xiv + 256 + 24 plates. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.

(3) Basal Metabolism in Health and Disease.

By Prof. Eugene F. Du Bois. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. viii + 17–431. (London: Bailliëre, Tindall and Cox, 1927.) 22s. 6d. net.