Book Review The Origin of Life . Being an account of experiments with certain superheated saline solutions in hermetically sealed vessels. By H. Charlton Bastian, M.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, University College, London. With ten plates, containing numerous illustrations from photomicrographs. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press. 1911.