Abstract
This is really an elementary account of the animal kingdom on the usual lines of descriptive zoology. It does not seem to refer definitely to any particular specimens placed on exhibition; but no doubt most of the forms mentioned are on view in the museum cases and serve instead of drawings. The statements are generally accurate and as precise as brevity permits. The style is clear,,but assumes some familiarity with words not in the vocabulary of the general visitor, such as “retractile,” “aberrant,” “everted.” If the class Myriapoda is retained, this is merely an instance of the “conservative attitude found convenient in a handbook to be used by the general public.” To say that norvegicus and rattus are “specific names ”is but to share a common error, and if the phrase “the Thero-morpha contains ”is a grammatical howler, it is the only one of its kind in this book. Mr. Milligan has accomplished a difficult task with much success.
The Horniman Museum: A Handbook to the Collections illustrating a Survey of the Animal Kingdom.
H. N.
Milligan
By Second edition. Pp. 66. (London County Council, 1922.) 6d.
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The Horniman Museum: A Handbook to the Collections illustrating a Survey of the Animal Kingdom . Nature 110, 412 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110412d0
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