PROGRESS IN PHYSIOLOGY

Abstract

DESPITE the “ever-narrowing confines of the world in which we can enjoy the friendly intimacies of intellectual collaboration”, to which the editors allude in their preface, the present volume is larger than most of its predecessors. One notes that the contents, always predominantly dealing with American work, are now almost entirely American except for references to a few pre-war papers. There is no ground for surprise in this; the numbers of investigators engaged in physiological research is far greater in the United States than elsewhere, at any time, and during the past three years one European country after another has closed down publication. Some of the contributors are more aware than others of work published outside the United States, while some appear to be quite unaware of non-American work ; in any event it is unquestionably far outweighed by the large bulk of American work. Annual Review of Physiology James Murray Luck, Editor; Victor E. Hall, Associate Editor. Vol. 4. (Published by the American Physiological Society and Annual Reviews, Inc.) Pp. viii + 709. (Stanford University P.O., Calif.: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1942.) 5 dollars.