Abstract
THE method of studying comparative anatomy that will ever be associated with the honoured names of John Hunter and Gegenbaur appeals strongly to the student of medicine, and those who specialise in human anatomy, as being the most interesting and instructive way of learning the significance of the animal economy. The comparison of homologous structures in the whole range of the animal kingdom and the realisation of their varying development and differing arrangement throw light upon their functions, and in our day explains the process of evolution of complex from simple structures. John Hunter embodied this method in the arrangement of his museum; Gegenbaur developed it in his lectures and his books.
Vorlesungen ber vergleichende Anatomie.
By Prof. O. Bütschli. 1 Lieferung, Einleitung; Vergleichende Anatomie der Protozoen; Integument und Skelet der Metazoen. Pp. viii + 401. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1910.) Price 12 marks.
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S., G. Vorlesungen über vergleichende Anatomie . Nature 87, 104–105 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087104a0
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