Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates

Abstract

ELEVEN years have elapsed since we had occasion to review in these pages the first English edition of Prof. Wiedersheim's “Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates,” adapted and modified from the first German edition by Prof. W. N. Parker. During this interval zoology, like every other branch of science, has been making steady progress, with the almost necessary result that theories and views which were held only a few years ago, have with increased knowledge become untenable or required modification. Prof. Wiedersheim has accordingly had on two occasions to bring up his text-book to date by the issue of new editions; not that in the earlier editions extreme views were set forth which have had to be abandoned, but simply to keep pace with the natural growth of knowledge of the forms of animal life. It is not before it was necessary that a second English edition has been undertaken if the work was to maintain its place amongst our comparative anatomy manuals of the day.

Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates.

Adapted from the German of Dr. Robert Wiedershein by W. N. Parker. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 488. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.)