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THIS is a further instalment of the biological studies of Paolo Celesia, who died in Rome in 1916 at the age of forty-four years. The first volume of his biological studies appeared in 1923 and contained eleven original memoirs together with reprints of a number of reviews. The present volume is a collection of about ninety articles or notes written during the author's last years, which record his views and reflections, with the place and date of writing. The notes range in length from a page to twenty pages, and from their manner of production have no continuity, but those on cognate subjects have been grouped to form seven chapters. The principal are on life and death, on sexuality and reproduction and on hermaphroditism, which together occupy about two-thirds of the volume. These are followed by chapters on asymmetry and on the abyssal fauna. Many of the notes are in the form of critical or speculative considerations arising out of the author's reading. The volume is a memorial of the author's contemplations on a considerable range of subjects.
Opere di Paolo Celesia. Serie scientifica.
Vol. 3, Serie 1: Nuovi studi biologici. Pp. viii + 532. (Roma: Libreria di Scienze e Lettere, 1932.) 35 lire.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 132, 556 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132556b0
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