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Abstract

MANY readers outside the ranks of zoologists will study this book with interest and profit, for in easy style it discourses upon almost every conceivable way in which mammals come in contact with man kind for good or ill. Its speciality, apart from the interest of its classification of mammalian economics, is statistics, and the figures, whether of meat con sumption, of the slaughter of fur-bearing animals, of damage done to crops and stocks, and so on, are up-to-date and astounding. The general discussion is followed by a resume of the economic interests of each mammalian order and, in the case of the more important orders, of their families. It is only fair to add that the authors have almost entirely ignored literature published beygnd America, but the field is enormous, and they have done their part well.

Economic Mammalogy.

By Junius Henderson. Pp. x + 397. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1932.) 26s.