Missouri Botanical Garden PETER H. RAVEN LIBRARY Pagination Note: Since many of the items lack a specific page number, the page number displayed online refers to the sequentially created number each item was given upon cataloging the materials. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 m.ssouri Botanical copyright reserved garden cm AlMgM mw & in? s/>/^ -'7 nU is f A ) (Sditorial Jcpartnunt. X \ REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. PAGET’S SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. [Continued.] Mr. Paget embraces in his theory the doctrine of complemental nutrition, first taught by C. F. Wolff, illustrating the subject as follows : “ A great change in nutrition rarely takes place in a single organ at a time ; for example, the growth of the beard at the period of puberty in man, the growth and perfection of the plum- age of ; the bird at breeding time ; but as in man, when the development of the genital organs is prevented, that of the beard and all other external sexual characters is, *as a consequence, hindered, so in birds, when the breeding season ends, and the sexual organs pass gradually into their periodic atrophy, at once the plumage begins to assume the pale and more sober colors, which characterizes the barrenness of winter . 55 He next refers to certain interesting specimens presented to the museum by Sir Philip Eger ton, showing the interesting fact, “ that if a buck be castrated while his antlers are still covered with velt, their growth is checked, they remain as if truncated, and irregular nodules of bone project from their surfaces . 55 “ The fact is not, hitherto, explained ; it is inexplicable, by believing that the materials which, in the formation of these organs of external sexual character, are removed from the blood, leave or maintain the blood in the state necessary for the further development, growth and active function of the proper sexual or reproductive organs . 55 u The concurrent development of the thymus gland and air breathing organs during the body’s growth of the thyroid gland and the brain, (instances II_ J 0 12 3 A \ 5 6 / 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical cm cop ►yright reserved garden SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT. 189 2 . — Monthly Mean of Temperature , Fahrenheit . JANUARY. TEAR. 6 A. M. ■SA.K. 12 M. 3p.m. 6p. m. 9P.M «“» 1861 26.9 29.5 35.3 37.4 33.5 30.8 1862 27! 1 | 27.3 30.1 30.7 29.5 28.5 28.9 1863 31.9 34.0 39.4 41.2 38.3 36.8 1864 22.6 25.2 32! 6 35.1 3L5 28.0 29*2 1865 21.9 24.2 31.5 33.1 30.2 27.9 28.1 1866 27.0 29.1 34.8 36.8 33.8 31.5 32.2 Mean 26.2 28.2 33.9 35.7 32.8 30.5 31.2 FEBRUARY. JANUARY. “ destination ” read declination. ***** ****?. rsS C£.>RG£ •- / zo y/^> 'A*'*' /2- /• 0 >~ * Lmf6^ ■r*f* r 1 . JrL'M jf^yt y^*» * C*~rrt f ^*. — ^ ^ ^HjAJl ,« lL o-lvcS-c. ij »sL C.'e Cf «?. ^ . > «y ; 1 L 662 copyright reserved aipweesast t ©irasffi . '#jSS~' , j^^ft T J'jA 663 */> "7^ ■- Ooi. * ZJ 4 -,.4 it , ^ / *».< „ $L 66 4 /J*r ' >Vo. h GO M , |aC / ', \ J, V 9 “' A.c ■• A ' tf— 4.>_ *&L, ■ n x+? . 7 8 9 10 Missour Botanicai copyright reserved garden Editorial Department. 4 REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. v PAGET’S SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. [Continued.] Mr, Paget embraces in bis theory the doctrine of complemental nutrition, first taught by C. F. Wolff, illustrating the subject as follows : organ at a time ; for example, the growth of the beard at the period of puberty in man, the growth and perfection of the plum- age of the bird at breeding time ; but as in man, when the development of the genital organs is prevented, that of the beard and all other external sexual characters is, as a consequence, hindered, so in birds, when the breeding season ends, and the sexual organs pass gradually into their periodic atrophy, at once the plumage begins to assume the pale and more sober colors, which characterizes the barrenness of winter.” He next refers to certain interesting specimens presented to the museum by Sir Philip Egerton, showing the interesting fact, “ that if a buck be castrated while his antlers are still covered with velt, their growth is checked, they remain as if truncated, and irregular nodules of bone project from their surfaces.” “ The fact is not, hitherto, explained ; it is inexplicable, by believing that the materials which, in the formation of these organs of external sexual character, are’ removed from the blood, leave or maintain the blood in the state necessary for the further development, growth and active function of the proper sexual or reproductive organs.” u The concurrent development of the thymus gland and air breathing organs during the body’s growth of the thyroid gland and the brain, (instances u A great change in nutrition rarely takes place in a single o 1 cm copyrii 189 1861., 1862.. 1863.. 1864.. 1865.. Missouri ■ • *' p ... , iC George CM - — ^ SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT. -Monthly Mean of Temperature, Fahrenheit. JANUARY. 6 A .h. 1 9a.m. »«. a,„. 9 P. M M r 1861 r 26.9 29.5 35.3 37.4 33.5 30.8 32.2 1862 27.1 27.8 30.1 30.7 29.5 28.5 1863 31.9 34.0 39.4 41.2 36.1 1864 22.6 25.2 32.6 35.1 31*5 28.0 29.2 1865.... 21.9 24.2 31.5 33.1 30.2 27.9 28.1 1866 27.0 29.1 34.8 36.8 33.8 31.5 32.2 Mean 26,2 28.2 33.9 35.7 32.8 30.5 31.2 FEBRUARY. 35.4 I 43.7 27.0 33.6 33.7 I 38.7 34.4 I 42.2 36.1. 41.7 30.0 37.0 39.7 34.4 40.4 35*7 1864. . 1865.. 1866.. 1864.. 1865.. 1866* ■ -Monthly Mean of Relative Humidity . JANUARY. 9 a. m. 12 m. 3 p. m. 6 p. M. 94.1 87.1 78.5 75.0 65.9 94.1 79.0 86.2 85.2 79.3 75.4 73.7 74.6 81.1 70.2 68.3 77.6 FEBRUARY. 72.2 79.3 70.8 72.2 85.3 81.7 75.6 74.6 75.1 73.9 81.7 62.7 72.0 70.6 70.2 76.9 70.7 Errata. In the last No. of Journal, on page 70, line 6, for the word 'destination ” read declination. 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