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FORMER editions of this excellent text-book, with its comprehensive and well-balanced contents and clear illustrations, have been favourably noticed in NATURE (112, 200 ; 1923: 129, 925 ; 1932). It need only be added that many changes in the text show that the fifth edition has been brought up to date. In some places, precision has been given to the already succinct descriptions of the characters of phyla, the section on development has been modified to meet modern views, and a short chapter upon the ecological distribution of animals includes a discussion upon the relationship of species in parasitism and symbiosis. We think it may still be said that there is no English book quite like this introduction in the success with which it lays, in so limited a space, a broad foundation in the morphology, physiology and development of the animal kingdom.
Grundriss der allgemeinen Zoologie
Von Prof. Dr. Alfred Kühn. Fünfte, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Pp. ix+272. (Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1936.) 9.80 gold marks.
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Grundriss der allgemeinen Zoologie. Nature 141, 711 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141711d0
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