Vorlesungen über vergleichende Anatomie

Abstract

THIS is a compilation of a kind which we expect from the patient industry and passion for orderly arrangement of the German scientific writer. It is a mine of information from which details of the structure of the alimentary canal of a very large number of animals can be extracted with a minimum of trouble. To the English zoologist it will appeal most because it is illustrated with the thoroughness which the German author rightly believes to be necessary, and the illustrations are selected with character istic care. A large proportion of them are entirely new to text-books, and many of them are from original drawings of Bütschli. But for the fact that they are sometimes rather too small to be easily understood, they are really excellent and a substantial justification for the publication of the book.

Vorlesungen über vergleichende Anatomie.

Prof. Otto Bütschli. Lieferung 4: Ernährungsorgane. Herausgegeben von F. Blochmann and C. Hamburger. Pp. iv + 380. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1924.) 6.45 dollars.