Abstract
IT is rather a sobering thought that within three years of the end of the War a book of more than five hundred pages is required to review the written contributions to one small corner of biological science. With such a literary output some kind of annual survey is clearly necessary, if only as a time-saving measure, to guide the worker or student to those articles relevant to his interests. Reviews, however, are something more than intelligently arranged catalogues, for they can present a periodical appreciation of the state of knowledge in the various fields and in this way help a worker to follow general trends in branches of the science other than his own. A third value to be attached to such surveys is that, by their general dissemination, they can exert a unifying influence which may be considered a direct contribution to a truly international spirit.
Annual Review of Physiology
Victor E. Hall, Editor Jefferson M. Crismon, Associate Editor Arthur C. Giese, Associate Editor. Vol. 10. Pp. xi+552. (Stanford, Calif.: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1948.) 6 dollars.
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Annual Review of Physiology. Nature 162, 429–430 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162429b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162429b0
