(1)Das Kaninchen Zugleich eine Einführung in die Organisation der Säugetiere

Abstract

FOLLOWING upon an industriously compiled volume devoted to the frog, this series, edited by Prof. Ziegler, is now represented by a work on the rabbit, which we may confess at once is a disappointing one. It is little more than a new edition of Krause's well-known work, with a few additional illustrations. Indeed, though more elaborate in detail, the treatment is hardly so good as that of any of the elementary treatises in which this familiar animal has been described. There are no practical directions for actual dissection, and the figures are singularly devoid of explanatory lettering, an omission which becomes ludicrous in the case of complicated musculature. The editor has not exercised sufficient control in that important respect, nor in the treatment of the various sections, bones and muscles being allowed far too large a share in a purely descriptive work.

Das Kaninchen. Zugleich eine Einführung in die Organisation der Säugetiere.

Monographien einheimischer Tiere. Vol. ii. Pp. vi + 307. (Leipzig: Dr. Werner Klinkhardt, 1909.) Price 6 marks.