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AFTER an interval of thirteen years, this wellknown text-book has appeared in a second edition. Its merits have earned for “Parker and Haswell” a high educational rank; the clear, terse descriptions of each selected example of the various classes; the comparison of the class with its exemplar; the abundance and excellence of the illustrations; the brief but useful summaries on general topics, distribution, history, variation. Its drawback has been that whilst containing a good two years' training in the subject-matter of zoology, it does not satisfy the needs of more advanced students. In some ways the new edition makes good this defect, but we are inclined to think that it would have been a gain if a good deal of elementary descriptive matter (such as students invariably obtain in other and smaller works) could have made way for fresh and much-needed descriptions of such examples as a tortoise and a mammal other than a rabbit, or for such a topic as comparative physiology.
A Text-Book of Zoology.
By Prof. T. J. Parker Prof. W. A. Haswell Vol i., pp. xxxix+839. Vol. ii., pp. xx+728. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 36s. net, the two vols.
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GAMBLE, F. A Text-Book of Zoology . Nature 85, 533 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085533a0
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