Four letters to Sir James Clark, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., physician in ordinary to the Queen and to the Prince Consort, on administrative reform in relation to the medical schools and the examining boards / by Alexander Harvey, A.M.

  • Harvey, Alexander, 1811-1889.
Date:
1858
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    I. ON A REMARKABLE EFFECT OE CROSS- BE,EEDINGr. Illustrative of the Fatiis-iu-Utero, as Inocu- lating the Maternal with the peculiai-ities of the Paternal Organism ; and of the influence thereby exerted by the Male on the constitution and the repi'oductive powers of the Female. 8vo. Price Is. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Soks. 1851. Of the various theories which have been advanced in expla- nation of this singular fact, of which many parallel instances are on record, none bear so much weight as that recently promulgated by Dr. Alexander Harvey. . . . For an account of Dr. Harvey's im- portant investigations on this subject, the reader is referred to his original papers in the ' Monthly Journal of Medical Science' for 1849 and 1850, or to his ' Essay on Cross-Breeding.' —Br. Kirhes, in ^ Handhooh of Physiology The subject lias been most ably brought before the profession by Dr. Alexander Harvey.—W. S. Savory, Esq., in 'Experimental Inqiiiry into tlw Effect upon the Mother of Poisoning the Foetus.'' See an interesting discussion of this question, by Dr. Alexander Harvey, in the 'Edinburgh IMonthly Journal,' Oct. 1849, and Oct. and Nov. 1850 ; and in his pamphlet ' On a Eeraarkable Eftect of Cross-Breeding,' Edinb., 1851.—Dr. Carpenter, in 'Principles of Htiman Physiology.' II. TREES AND THEIR NATURE; or, THE BUD AND ITS ATTRIBUTES. In a Series of Letters to his Sons. Il- lustrated with Engravings. Small crown 8vo. Price 6s. London : James Nisbet and Co. 1856. A most interesting question in natural history, well worked out.—Dublitt Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. We liave been exceedingly charmed with this volume. It is beautifully written. It may ser\e as a model of masterly discus- sion.—i?/77/6f/< Quarterly Review. AVo regard this volume as a truly valuable cojitribution to botanical science. The question which it propounds is apparently