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Abstract

HUMAN physiology will ever continue to be the science which will pre-eminently fascinate the mind of man in virtue of the directness and personal character of its appeal. The versatility of man, which has placed less resourceful creatures under his dominion, has also led to the combination of so many physiological processes in a single species that it is not surprising that several of these processes, considered individually, may be found more highly developed in lower species. For the better understanding and for the more thorough investigation of such living processes, recourse must be had to animals in which the particular mechanism under consideration is most highly typified. It is just here that the Cambridge series of Monographs on Comparative Physiology brings the student or worker in physiology into touch with the evolution, the variety, and what might perhaps be regarded by him as the exaggeration of normal human processes.

(1) Comparative Physiology of the Heart.

By Prof. A. J. Clark. (Cambridge Comparative Physiology Series.) Pp. vi + 157. 8s. 6d. net.

(2) The Comparative Physiology of Internal Secretion.

By Prof. Lancelot T. Hogben. (Cambridge Comparative Physiology Series.) Pp. vii + 148. 10s. 6d. net.

(3) Ciliary Movement.

By J. Gray. (Cambridge Comparative Physiology Series.) Pp. viii + 162. 10s. 6d. net. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927 and 1928.)