Abstract
THIS most recent addition to the Biological Series of the Cambridge Natural Science Manuals edited by Mr. A. E. Shipley, is an attractive-looking volume, well printed, and with the monotony of the text agreeably broken by a judicious use of small capitals, italics, and clarendon type. The numerous illustrations, which are probably accountable for the high price (12s. 6d.) of the book, though simple in execution are clear in detail, and, on the whole, chosen with discretion. The majority of the figures have not been published before, and are based on specimens contained in the Cambridge University Museum and the Natural History Museum, London. The text is remarkably free from typographical errors, but is frequently bald in style and irritating from unnecessary iteration. This repetition, it is true, is apologised for in the preface, but it could have been avoided by altering the plan of the book, which as it stands is rather confusing.
The Vertebrate Skeleton.
By Sidney H. Reynolds Pp. xvi + 559. (Cambridge: University Press, 1897.)
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The Vertebrate Skeleton. Nature 56, 245–246 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056245a0
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