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Volume 11 - October 1967

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University of Paris, Faculty of Medicine

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History of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection, by SirVictor Neous, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. viii, 140, plates, 30s.

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Professor Adalberto Passini Honoured by the University of Athens

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Joseph Priestley, Adventurer in Science and Champion of Truthby F. W. Gimbs (British Men of Science Series), London and Edinburgh, Nelson, 1965, pp. xxii, 258, illus., 42s.

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Professor Ernst W. Stieb Appointed Historian of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto

University of Oslo, Institute of Hygiene

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Edward Tyson's Orang-Outang - Edward Tyson Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man. London, 1699. A facsimile with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. Price: £22 10s. 0d.

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New Medical Postage Stamp

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Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution,by Charles Wilcocks, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1965, pp. vi, 271, illus., 21s.

Anthology of Orthopaedics, by Mercer Rang, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. xi, 243, illus., 42s.

Commentaires de la Faculté de Médecine de l' Université de Paris (1516–1560), edited, with an introduction and notes by Marie-Louise Concasty, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1964.

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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library Saturday Opening

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Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology, by Howard B. Adelmann, 5 vols. (pp. 2475) 4to, 16 plates (11 col.), map, Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press, 1966. £70.

The Life of an Egyptian Doctor by Naguib Mahfouz, with a foreword by Sir Cecil Wakeley, Bt., Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. xii, 192, illus., 40s.

Thomas Willis on the Brain - The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, by Thomas Willis, tercentenary edition (1664–1964) edited by William Feindel. Montreal, McGill University Press, 1965, 2 vols., illus., $37.50.

Carl von Linné, by Heinz Gorke (Grosse Naturforscher Series, No. 31), Stuttgart, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1966, pp. 232, illus., DM. 23.50.

A Source Book in the History of Psychology ed. by R. J. Herrnstein and E. G. Boring , Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1965, pp. xvii, 636.

The Nature of Hypnosis: selected basic readings, edited by R. E. Shor and M. T. Orne, London, Holt, Rinehart & Wilson, 1965, pp. vii, 504, front., 88s.

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Keynes on William Harvey - The Life of William Harvey, by SirGeoffrey Keynes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966, pp. xviii, 483, illus., 90s.

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