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AN introductory work on modern aims and methods in the study of fresh-water life was much wanted, and this book is exactly fitted for the purpose. It forms one of the well-known and useful series of Text-Books of Animal Biology edited by Prof. Julian S. Huxley, who contributes an introduction to this volume. The chief object set before the worker is to study the life in inland waters by finding out all that there is to know, not only about the animals themselves and their inter-relations with other animals and with plants, but also all that there is to be. known about the waters which they inhabit, their physical and chemical nature, geological features, past and present, and how they affect the organisms—in fact, to study the animal thoroughly in relation to its environment.
Life in Inland Waters: with Especial Reference to Animals.
By Kathleen E. Carpenter. (Text-Books of Animal Biology.) Pp. xviii + 267 + 12 plates. (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1928.) 12s. net.
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Life in Inland Waters: with Especial Reference to Animals . Nature 125, 774 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125774a0
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