Lehrbuch der Zoologie

Abstract

What the illustrious and experienced author proposes in his preface is a text-book for University students—presumed to be serious—a scientific work, a synthetic presentation of the results of analysis, an evolutionist outlook, an exposition in which structure, function, and relationships are to be considered essentially “als Erfolge einer geschicht-lichen Wandlung.” This is a noble ideal of a text-book, and to say that the outcome falls short of it is only to say that Dr. Goette is human—a busy investigator and teacher, with much more urgent tasks than writing text-books.

Lehrbuch der Zoologie.

By Dr. Alexander Goette, Professor of Zoology in the University of Strassburg. Pp. xii + 504; 512 figs. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1902.) Price 12s. net.