Lehrbuch der Paläzoologie

Abstract

THE second part of Dr. Stromer's text-book of palæozoology deals with the fossil vertebrates in the same concise and philosophical manner as his previous account of the invertebrates. The descriptive sections comprise only just such conspicuous families and genera as are needed by a student who seeks a broad view of the subject; and at the end of the chapter on each class there is a brief summary of the leading features in the geological distribution and evolution of the class as a whole, with a table of diagnoses of its larger subdivisions. A useful list of the principal papers and books published during the last few years is also appended. The text throughout is well illustrated with drawings of more than usual artistic merit, and although the majority of them are taken, with acknowledgment, from various original works, Dr. Stromer himself has frequently amended them to bring them up-to-date. Some, indeed, are in advance of their formal publication, such as the drawing of the skeleton of the strange clawed ungulate mammal Moropus, contributed by Dr. W. J. Holland. So many are new to a text-book that their appearance is quite refreshing.

Lehrbuch der Paläzoologie.

Teil ii., Wirbeltiere. By Dr. E. F. Stromer v. Reichenbach. Pp. ix + 32. (Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1912.) Price 10 marks.