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MUSEUMS of natural history exist in order that they may make collections, and by the development of systematic zoology and botany, and of similar aspects of mineralogy and geology, so organize them that they are available to scientific workers. Their own publications have therefore been concerned primarily with taxonomy, taking the form of systematic catalogues. But recently, when old–fashioned ‘systematics’ have reached a point at which further exploitation has given diminishing returns, the interest of museum staffs has spread into wider fields, and such portents as the establishment of a department of experimental zoology, with an exceptionally well–equipped laboratory, by the American Museum of Natural History, have made their appearance.
The Tetrapod Reptiles of Ceylon
Vol. 1: Testudinates and Crocodilians. By P. E. P. Deraniyagala. (Colombo Museum Natural History Series.) Pp. xxxii + 412 + 24 plates. (Colombo: Colombo Museum; London: Dulau and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 10 rupees; 15s.
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WATSON, D. The Tetrapod Reptiles of Ceylon. Nature 148, 39 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148039a0
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