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IN the matter of bulk this edition shows a marked increase over the first edition (1903); while, in most cases, at any rate, it appears to have been brought fairly well up to date. The ancestral proboscideans from the Egyptian Eocene are, for instance, duly noticed, and recent work on Patagonian Tertiary vertebrates likewise receives due attention. On the other hand, we notice an absence of any reference to Dr. Broom's opinion that the South African Triassic Trity-lodon is, after all, a mammal; while in certain cases the author departs from the generally accepted classification without any apparent or sufficient reason. In the ungulate mammals, for example, the hippopotamus is removed from the Artiodactyla to find a place with Dinoceras and Coryphodon among the Amblypoda; in fact, Hippopotamus and the American Tertiary genus Merycochoerus are actually included in the family Coryphodontidse. This is bad enough, but, when we find Oreodon-the immediateally of Mery-cochcerus-occupying its proper position in the neighbourhood of the camels, we are at a loss whether to attribute such eccentricities to mere carelessness or to lack of knowledge on the part of the author.
Einführung in die Paläontologie.
By Gustav Steinmann. Second edition. Pp. xii + 542; illustrated. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.) Price 14 marks.
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L., R. Einführung in die Paläontologie . Nature 77, 558 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077558b0
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