and 348, Broadway. 1858.

The name of Mr. Goadby is embalmed in a preservative solution
invented by him and known as Goadby's Fluid. Those who have visited
the Royal College of Surgeons in London tell us of very exquisite
anatomical preparations made by him while employed as Minute
Dissector to that institution. We are grateful to Mr. Goadby for
consecrating his narrow but sure immortality and his excellent
mechanical talent to the service of the New World and especially of
the State of Michigan.

It does not follow from this that Mr. Goadby has written a good book
on Animal and Vegetable Physiology, nor that he could write such a
book. Starting with this proposition, we are candid rather than
sanguine as we open the volume. We find that it is not in any true
sense a treatise upon Physiology, but chiefly upon the Minute
Anatomy of Animals and Vegetables, with some incidental physiological
commentaries.

On closer examination, we find it to be the work of a microscopist,
and not that of a physiologist or a scholar. Its merits are
principally its illustrations, many of which are from original
dissections, some of which are very good diagrams, others ordinary,
and some--such as the view of the human brain and spinal chord on
page 282--wretched. The colored figures are washed with dull tints
in a very shabby and negligent way. The text is mainly an account of
the objects illustrated in the figures, and will prove interesting to
the working microscopist as explaining the observations of a skilful
dissector. As a "Text-Book of Physiology for Schools and Colleges,"
it is of course without value.

English microscopists, if we might judge by this work and that of
Mr. Hassall, are not remarkable for scholarship. The showy and in
some respects valuable work of the latter gentleman was disgraced by
constant repetitions of gross blunders in spelling. Mr. Goadby is
not much above his countryman in literary acquirements, if we may
judge by his treatment of the names of Schwann and Lieberkuhn, whom
he repeatedly calls Schawn and Leiberkuhn, and by the indignity
which he offers to the itch-insect by naming it _Aearus Scabiaei_. It
is not necessary to give further examples; but, if the general
statement be disputed, we are prepared to speckle the book with
corrections until it looks like a sign-board with a charge of small
shot in it.

Nothing that we have said must be considered as detracting from
Mr. Goadby's proper merits as