Abstract
To deal with the above-named publications in inverse order, it may be remarked that Dr. Wolfenden's treatise of fifteen quarto plates and six pages of letterpress is the outcome of the radiography, by means of a 10-inch spark-coil, of a collection of Echinodermata dredged in the Orkney Seas during 1896-97. The author claims that it has been his endeavour “to show that the new method of radiography may be made of considerable service in zoology, as an accessory to dissection and description.” The plates are mostly inartistic and of no practical value to the zoologist—at best but poor examples of the radiographer's art. While they betoken a laudable desire on their originator's part to develop the new light of physical science, they partake of the nature of mere experimental memoranda such as are usually made a basis for fuller investigation and allowed to pass unpublished.
Archives of the Roentgen Ray.
Vol. ii. No. 2. Radiography in Marine Zoology, being a Supplement to the Archives of the Roentgen Ray. The British Echinodermata. By R. Norris Wolfenden. (London: The Rebman Publishing Company, 1897.)
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Archives of the Roentgen Ray. Nature 57, 509 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057509a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057509a0