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THE author, in his preface, describes the scope and intention of this book, which is to lay emphasis on one hand on the evolutionary story that the study of palæntology tells us, and on the other to illustrate the adaptation of animals to their environment. The author further states that his purpose is “to interest rather than to repel the beginner—a pedagogical principle all too frequently ignored”. In these aims he appears largely to succeed, and the book compares well with others of its class. Naturally, in a book which deals with the whole of palæontology from Protozoa to man in 364 pages, there must be either compression or omission, and the second alternative has wisely been chosen, with the result that the reader, who is supposed to be a beginner, is at all events saved from mental indigestion.
Paleontology.
By Prof. Edward Wilber Berry. Pp. xii + 392. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw - Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1929.) 17s. 6d. net.
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Paleontology . Nature 124, 944 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124944a0
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