Abstract
THE editor of the “Progressive Science Series,” Mr. Beddard, has undertaken the preparation of the volume “On Whales.” Amongst the mammalia, no order is more remarkable than the Cetacea. The huge size, both in length and bulk, attained by many of the species, their fish-like habitat, the modifications in mammalian structure necessary to adapt them for a life in the water, and the difficulties attendant on their capture, have invested them with an interest which appeals to the popular imagination as well as to the naturalist. In writing this book, Mr. Beddard has had in view the compilation of a volume which, whilst based on scientific lines, should be expressed in language divested as far as possible of technicalities, so that the descriptions might be understood by educated persons generally. In this respect he has succeeded.
A Book on Whales.
By F. E. Beddard With 40 illustrations by W. Sidney Berridge. Pp. xv + 320. (London: John Murray, 1900.)
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A Book on Whales . Nature 61, 585–586 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061585a0
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