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THIS work appears to approach in method the ideal of an elementary text-book of science, since it gives a sound and well-balanced résumé of its subject to date, with references to authorities sufficient to place the student in direct touch with original description of detail. The pages of the book never pall, and in treatment and mode of expression it is one of the least “German ” of German text-books with which we are familiar. It is illustrated by 386 excellent processed drawings, many of which are coloured, and where original these are very good and such as are likely to become popular. The investigations, of His, of course, come in for a full share of recognition, and good use has been made of those of Keibel, Mall, Röse, Toldt, and others among recent workers. The book is divided into five leading sections. An introduction of sixteen pages is followed by portions dealing with the earlier stages of development (“Progenie” and “Blastogenie”), treated as far as is necessary comparatively. The fœtal membranes and progressive development of the human fœtus next come in for consideration; but the bulk of the work (405 pages) is of necessity devoted to a desciption of the development of systems and organs, and there is appended a twenty-page dissertation on heredity. Not the least pleasing feature of the book is its consummately artistic plan. Illustrations never obtrude themselves upon the margin nor overpower the text. In the placing of the figures, choice of their colour and descriptive letterpress, there are evidences of the bestowal of great care and forethought and of painstaking consideration of detail, which are alone a strong recommendation, of the work. It is carefully written and non-pedantic, and should be deservedly popular.
Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen.
Von Dr. J. Kollmann Professor der Anatomie in Basel. Pp. xii + 658. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898.)
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Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. Nature 58, 77 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058077a0
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