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FOR a remarkably clear and well-illustrated account of the development of the vertebrates the student could not do better than turn to this text-book from the pen of the distinguished professor of the University of Brussels. The information given is thoroughly up-to-date, the conclusions for the most part convincingly supported by an abundance of facts marshalled with great skill. While the author does not hesitate to discuss controversial questions, yet this treatise is strikingly free from prejudice, and none the less interesting because it deals for the most part with matters of fact. We find none of the fantastic phylogenetic interpretations of developmental stages according to the recapitulation theory which disfigure so many general text-books of embryology.
Traité d'embryologie des vertébrés.
Par Prof. A. Brachet. Pp. xvi + 602. (Paris: Masson et Cie., 1921.) 60 francs net.
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Traité d'embryologie des vertébrés. Nature 110, 275 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110275a0
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