Ergebnisse der Physiologie

Abstract

IN the present day, when the man of science is becoming more and more overwhelmed by the ever-increasing flood of literature, any methods which can assist him in some degree to surmount the flood may cordially be welcomed. Year-books and Central-blatter are useful in affording abstracts of current literature, but such abstracts, necessarily disconnected, are apt to engender disconnection and incompleteness of thought in their readers. Moreover, mixed fragments of literature are exceedingly difficult to assimilate, in comparison with connected and critical surveys extending over a definite range of some stated subject. We must therefore express our warm approval at the publication of the first volumes of this new physiological annual. As the name might imply, this “Ergebnisse der Physiologie” is comparable in character to the well-known “Ergebnisse der Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte,” which has proved of great service to zoologists, and to the no less valuable “Ergebnisse der allgemeinen Pathologie.”In the words of the editors (L. Asher and K. Spiro), the present “Ergebnisse” will consist of original and critical essays upon various subjects or special points in physiology, which as the result of fresh research have acquired an especial interest. As the “Ergebnisse” will appear annually, they hope that in course of time as far as possible every branch of the science will receive its due attention.

Ergebnisse der Physiologie.

Erster Jahrgang. II. Abteilung. Biophysik und Psychophysik. Pp. xviii + 926. (Wiesbaden: Bergmann.) Price 25 marks.