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THE present volume is an attempt to fill what has long been recognized as a very definite gap in text-books of zoology in English. In the preface the author states that her intention was to treat of the invertebrates in three volumes of which the first was to include the non-cœlomate forms. However, she found it impossible to compress all the matter selected into one volume of reasonable size and so decided to issue it in two parts of which this is the first. Those who use the book, and we are sure they will be many, will agree with the author in this. The treatise is obviously intended for students reading for an honours degree in zoology, for senior workers, and will moreover prove of considerable assistance to lecturers in groups other than their own, for it contains a remarkable amount of information. The nearest approach to it in English is Lankester's “Treatise on Zoology” which was never finished and is no longer up to date in many respects. The only other text-book with which it can be compared is Kükenthal and Krumbach's “Handbuch der Zoologie” and this is not in English, also unfinished and is on a much more pretentious and detailed scale. It has one advantage over both these works, in that it is by one author and therefore presents a balance and uniformity not attainable when a number of different authors are involved.
The Invertebrates
Protozoa through Ctenophora. By Libbie Henrietta Hyman. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Zoological Sciences.) Pp. xii + 728. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 46s.
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The Invertebrates. Nature 147, 160 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147160a0
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