CURRENT LITERATURE.
Philocereus Senitia, and other Papers. By Walter Moxon, MD. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a collection of various lectures and papers by the late Dr. Walter Moron, addressed in the first instance to the students of Guy's Hospital. Perhaps the most generally interesting of them is the last, " Alcohol and Individuality; or, Why did he become a Drunkard ?" One of the most vigorously written is "The Biologist and the Physician," the annual address delivered before the Hunterian Society. " Do your youth," be sake, "now form, or even frequent, museums which embody inqniry ? I fear not. They are forced to be too long over their biological dust- heaps." And he tells ns that daring four months which he spent in studying the collection of the Hunterian Museum, he saw bat one inquirer, and he was a gentleman who had made a bet that "a woodcock has no bowels " !
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