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CHOOSING a suitable and expressive title is not unfrequently one of the most difficult tasks (next to writing a preface) in preparing a work relating to natural history, and in this particular instance we venture to think that the author has not done himself anything like justice in the one he has selected. “Animals” in popular estimation are still regarded (and to a certain extent we think justly so) as forming only one section of the animal kingdom; while, altogether apart from this, the title, “European Animals,” which alone appears on the cover, suggests a work of a nature totally different from the one before us. At any rate, such was the impression in our own case, and we expected to find something in the shape of a text-book of at least the mammalian section of the European fauna. When the full title is read the situation is of course changed, although even then there seems something lacking. As a matter of fact, the volume, which is based on a course of (we believe much appreciated) lectures delivered at South Kensington, may be regarded as a sequel to and amplification of the author's previous work on the “History of the European Fauna.”
European animals: their Geological History and Geograthical Distribution.
By R. F. Scharff. Pp. 14 + 258; illustrated. (London: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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L., R. European animals: their Geological History and Geograthical Distribution . Nature 76, 441 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076441a0
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