On the pathology of delirium tremens : and its treatment without stimulants or opiates / by Alexander Peddie.

  • Peddie, Alexander, 1810-1907.
Date:
1854
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    The treatise on the Tertiaries of the Mayence basin, by the brothers Sandberger, is for all who study the relations of the middle to the lower tertiaries, one of the most valuable contributions to our science during the year. Since, however, we are shortly to have presented to us the results of Mr. Hamilton's prolonged and careful labours in the same region, I shall abstain for the present from any com- ments on an essay of peculiar interest to myself, as well as on other recent German papers, especially those by Beyrich and Dunker, affect- ing the same, or closely allied localities. Organic Remains. The enormous increase of palseontological observations may be measured by a comparison between the number of species recorded in the first edition of Professor Morris's Catalogue of British fossils, and the number mentioned in those portions of the new edition that have gone through the press, and will shortly be published. The number of plants recorded in 1843 was 510; in 1853, 652 are cited. The increase is chiefly among Mesozoic and Tertiary types. A great deal has been done to elucidate the structure and affinities of fossil plants in the interval, especially by Dr. Hooker, Mr. Charles Bunbury, Prof. King, Mr. Dawes, and Mr. Binney, but not so much towards adding new names to our lists of species. In Fossil Botany this course of proceeding is a sign of advance of knowledge. The most marked increase in number of recorded species is among the oolitic and Wealden beds. The late lamented Dr. Mantell did much of late years towards increasing the latter list. Were all the known frag- ments of distinct vegetables found in our tertiaries monographed and named in the manner of those I shall have presently to mention, de- scribed and figured in the lately published memoirs by Austrian bota- nists, our lists would be considerably increased. They certainly ought to be made the subject of a treatise, and might be advantageously taken up by the Palseontographical Society, which, as yet, has given us no separate memoir on British fossil plants. The Amorphozoa come next. In 1843, 76 named forms were re- corded. In 1853, the number is increased to 116. The increase is in a great measure due to the labours of Mr. Toulmin Smith among the Ventriculidse, which, notwithstanding the arguments of their in- vestigator in advocacy of their Polyzoan, and consequently Molluscan origin, naturalists are generally of accord to keep in their old place beside the Sponges. The Foraminifera, 82 of which are mentioned as named types in the list of 1843, have increased to 168, besides numerous in- dications of unpublished and, as yet, unnamed forms. The nexl ten years will probably triple the amount of named fossil species of these exquisite minims of creation. The additions are chiefly new identifications of British fossils, with species described by con- tinental authors, especially by Alcide d'Orbigny and Reuss. The merit of determining these is, I believe, in great part due to our Assistant-secretary, Mr. Rupert Jones, whose authority stands very high in all departments of microscopic paleeozoology. Mr. Jones