Abstract
TO an outside observer who has had to use and study French, German and English textbooks and comprehensive treatises in the biological sciences, a very definite difference is apparent between the best specimens in each of the three languages, illustrating, I believe, the fundamental characteristics in science of three great nations. The typical French textbook is the ‘trait pratique’, describing with admirable precision instruments and methods by which results are obtained. The typical German book is the ponderous ‘Handbuch’ into which facts and results are crowded and systematically arranged. The typically English contribution is the ‘Principles’, written from a definite point of view and dealing with fundamental mechanisms. Features in the Architecture of Physiological Function. By Dr. Joseph Barcroft (Cambridge Comparative Physiology.) Pp. x + 368. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 20s. net.
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