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The text-book of vertebrate anatomy by the professor of zoology in the University of Illinois was so eminently useful, being concise and lucid, and illustrated by an adequate number of very clear diagrams, that it is not surprising to record the appearance of another edition, which has been revised and improved. It provides an account of the early development of Amphioxus, the frog, the chick, and man, the formation of their germ-layers, embryonic membranes and bodily form, and an excellent section dealing with organogeny. The third part of the book consists of a very instructive atlas of sections, which includes drawings of a valuable series of pig embryos. Part four is concerned with technique and deals with the preparations of embryological material, the use of the microscope, the making of drawings, and reconstructions.
Vertebrate Embryology.
By Prof. Waldo Shumway. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. x + 311. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 18s. 6d. net.
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Vertebrate Embryology . Nature 127, 588 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127588c0
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