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THIS is an eminently practical treatise, designed to assist the senior university student in his laboratory work so as to enable him to gain a thorough knowledge of the successive appearances of the embryos of amphioxus, the frog, the chick, the rabbit, and man, during their course of development from the egg to the adult form. The student is supposed to pursue his studies by the aid of the most modern methods, and he has here placed before him by means of clear methodical description and clever original drawings exactly what he ought to see and identify in his series of microscopic sections. The book will be extremely useful, as are the author's other treatises, to all teachers and students of biology. It should be pointed out that very considerable pains has been taken by Prof. Milnes Marshall to give accuracy and reality to his statements. Especial care has been given to the account of the embryology of the frog, which is illustrated by admirable original drawings and may be regarded as a critical revision of the subject based upon original work carried out by the author and his pupils. Most of the novel features in the chapter on the chick are derived from the work of Duval, but in the later stages of the rabbit's development Prof. Marshall again relies on his own observations and drawings. The account of the human embryo is based upon that of Prof. His with some judicious additions.
Vertebrate Embryology.
By A. Milnes Marshall. (London: Smith, Elder, 1893.)
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LANKESTER, E. Vertebrate Embryology. Nature 48, 265 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048265a0
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