Abstract
WRITERS on biological subjects have always used a rich vocabulary, but with the growth of information and knowledge there has arisen such a wealth of technical terms and oof classificatory nomenclature that readers, and oeven writers themselves, are often at a loss, and it is difficult to refer an inquirer to any handy work containing an adequate glossary of terms used in anthropology, botany, and geology. Ziegler's “Zoologisches Wörterbuch” supplies the want for zoologists, and supplies it well, but there is undoubtedly room for such a dictionary as this which Dr. Schmidt has xvritten. At a rough estimate it contains 10,000 definitions, and the labour of compiling it must have been very great for not only are descriptive words explained but there are also many generic terms and expressions that appeal only to the advanced systematist. The derivations of the words are not given.
Wörterbuch der Biologie.
By Dr. Heinrich Schmidt. Pp. viii + 581. (Leipzig: Alfred Kröner, 1912.) Price 10 marks.
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Wörterbuch der Biologie. Nature 89, 189 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089189a0
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