Experimental Zoologie 3: Phylogenese

Abstract

THIS volume, the third instalment of the author's work on experimental zoology, is planned on the same lines as the preceding parts; it deals essentially with the nature of species and the origin and modification of specific characters. It gives a concise summary of the work which has been done in various branches of the subject, with short discussions and criticisms where the author considers them necessary. It is on the whole, however, rather an encyclopaedia of the phenomena of species than a discussion, as is indicated by the fact that 70 out of 315 pages are devoted to the bibliography and index. In some cases rather more criticism would have been welcome, for the author summarises papers of very different importance with an impartiality which sometimes makes it difficult to gauge the relative value of the work.

Experimental-Zoologie. 3: Phylogenese.

By Dr. H. Przibram. Pp. viii + 315 + xxiv. plates. (Leipzig und Wien: F. Deuticke, 1910.) Price 18 marks.