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HOW is it that we know so much of the structure and life habits of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters? Why is it that scurvy, the eighteenth century scourge of seamen and others is scarcely known to-day? How was the relationship between insects and diseases discovered? How did Mendel discover the now well-known laws of heredity? Why is it that to-day surgery is comparatively safe whereas at one time about 90 per cent of the patients died of blood-poisoning?
Biology in the Making
By Emily Eveleth Snyder. Pp. xii + 539. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 18s.
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Biology in the Making. Nature 146, 443 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146443a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146443a0