Abstract
THIS is not, as might perhaps (from its title and from a hasty glance at its contents) be imagined, a popular exposition of the main facts of Embryology as ordinarily understood. Prof. His has been led by his researches to adopt peculiar views concerning the causation of animal forms. These he has explained at some considerable length in his great work on the “Development of the Chick,” and elsewhere, but they have not met with very general acceptance; and the little work we are noticing has for its object a popular and somewhat fuller explanation of these views, and a defence of them against various critics. Among these critics the most conspicuous is Haeckel, whose, to say the least, severe remarks on the author have occasioned a very spirited retaliation. In fact the work, small as it is and popular as it is intended to be, is very largely controversial; and it has always appeared to us a sign of weakness when a scientific combatant brings his quarrel before a general public.
Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Enstehung.
Briefe an einen befreundeten Naturforscher, von Wilhelm His. (Leipzig: Vogel, 1875. Loudon: Williams and Norgate.)
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
F., M. Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Enstehung . Nature 12, 328 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012328a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012328a0