“Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist, botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”
| − + | Sat. R. 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w. |
Sherrington, Charles Scott. Integrative action of the nervous system. **$3.50. Scribner.
6–38912.
“The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness.... The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc., illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.
| J. Philos. 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w. |
“We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”
| + + − | Nature. 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w. |