Die Antike Tierwelt

Abstract

FOR many years past the author of this interesting volume has been engaged in investigating the records relating to animals known to the ancients, with the object of identifying the various species described or depicted, and working out their past history and distribution, special attention, in the case of mammals, being directed to the larger and more interesting forms, and those which have been domesticated by man. The results of this protracted study are incorporated in the work, of which the first volume is now before me, and in many respects Dr. Keller is to be congratulated on the outcome of his labours, especially in regard to his treatment of the various species of the Primates and Carnivora, although even among these he does not appear to have made himself acquainted with all the recent literature on the subject, and notably the work of Dr. Lortet on the mummified animals of Egypt, now in course of publication in the Archives of the Lyons Museum.

Die Antike Tierwelt.

By Otto Keller. Erster Band, Säugetiere. Pp. xii + 434. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1909.) Price 10 marks.