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A Clinical Text-Book of Tropical Medicine

During the past ten years this work upon tropical medicine has appeared in three progressive editions in Dutch and the present volume is the first English translation of the third Dutch edition. It is presented to the medical profession as “a simple book that presents the high lights of the subject briefly and yet sufficiently,” but it is really a very thorough consideration of the subject. Written as it was for Dutch practitioners in the tropics, especially in Java, it possesses considerable local color but this adds to its value, as the personal experience of both authors has been extensive and both are known as prolific contributors to our knowledge of the diseases occurring in the tropics. The book is divided into nine chapters and in it are considered all of the diseases and conditions occurring in the tropics in a lucid and interesting manner.

Early Books on the Hyacinth

UNDER the title “The Voorhelms of Haarlem”, Mr. W. Roberts gives an interesting account of some of the Dutch bulb growers, and their literary efforts, during the eighteenth century (/, Roy, Hort. Soc, 60, Part 3, pp. 199-208, May 1935). The Dutch trade in bulbs was established in the seventeenth century, upon a basis of secrecy. The “Dutch Gardener or the Complete Florist”, a book by Henry Van Oosten, published in London in 1703, devoted four pages to the hyacinth and forty to the tulip, but gave away none of the precious information. The publication of “A Treatise on the Hyacinth” by George Voorhelm, in 1752, broke the tradition, and, far from ruining the Dutch trade in bulbs, laid the foundation for development to its present magnificent proportions. The volume was translated into English, French, Italian and German, though no Dutch edition was apparently needed. It was the first scientific treatise on bulb culture, but Mr. Roberts cites many more later volumes on the same subject, and also outlines, in pleasing style, the later development and fortunes of the house of Voorhelm.

A Text-book of Organic Chemistry . By A. F. Holleman, Ph.D., F.R.A. (Amst.), Professor Ordinarius in the University of Amsterdam. Translated from the third Dutch edition by A. Jamieson Walker, Ph.D., B.A., head of the Department of Chemistry, Technical College, Derby, England, assisted by Owen Mott, Ph.D., with the cooperation of the author. Second English edition, rewritten. New York, John

<i>A Text-book of Organic Chemistry</i> . By A. F. Holleman, Ph.D., F.R.A. (Amst.), Professor Ordinarius in the University of Amsterdam. Translated from the third Dutch edition by A. Jamieson Walker, Ph.D., B.A., head of the Department of Chemistry, Technical College, Derby, England, assisted by Owen Mott, Ph.D., with the cooperation of the author. Second English edition, rewritten. New York, John

Geological Explorations in Central Borneo (1893-94)

THE Dutch edition of this work appeared in 1899, and Dr. Hinde's appendix, then issued in English, is now transferred, with its separate pagination, to the translation of the complete work. The Borneo Expedition, of which Dr. Molengraaff was the geological member, was organised by Mr. S. W. Tromp, Resident of West Borneo, in connection with the Society for the Promotion of the Scientific Exploration of the Dutch Colonies. The observations were made some ten years ago, and the author has not included references to the work of others, published since the completion of the Dutch edition. We are in possession, however, of the summary of the geology of Borneo drawn up by Dr. E. Suess in 1901 (“Das Antlitz der Erde,” 3ter. Band, pp. 308-319), and many readers have already turned to that summary for an exposition of the work of Molengraaff. Dr. Posewitz, about 1890, brought together, after three years' residence in the island, the facts then known about the geology and mineralogy of Borneo (“Borneo”; translated by Hatch, 1892), and his geological sketch-map was intended to show how large a part of the country had already been examined in a preliminary kind of way. Dr. Molengraaff, in his atlas, provides only one geological map, dealing with the parts of Central and South Borneo known to him; an enlarged map of a portion of this area follows, and the other maps prudently record the observations actually made on the banks of the rivers, which provide practically the only routes for travellers in the country. Some generalised sections and panoramic landscapes follow, the latter proving that wide views are obtainable when observers climb above the forest-zone. The fine illustrations, and plates in the volume of text reveal, moreover, many features of crag and mountain that will be new to those who think of Borneo as clothed with vegetation, amid which the rivers wander in equatorial shade.

Handbook of Zoology. By J. Van der Hoeven, Professor of Zoology in the University of Leyden. Translated from the second Dutch Edition, by the Rev. William Clark, M.D., F.R.S. &amp;c. 2 vols. 8vo. London, Longmans, 1856–1858

<i>Handbook of Zoology</i>. By J. V<scp>an der</scp> H<scp>oeven</scp>, Professor of Zoology in the University of Leyden. Translated from the second Dutch Edition, by the Rev. William Clark, M.D., F.R.S. &amp;c. 2 vols. 8vo. London, Longmans, 1856–1858