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A PERIOD of a quarter of a century has elapsed since the first appearance of Prof. W. B. Scott's admirable account of the mammals of the western hemisphere. The new edition that has just appeared gives a measure of the increase in our knowledge of extinct mammals during this time, the result of praiseworthy activity on the part of many museums of the United States and Canada. This increase has necessitated so much revision and rewriting that, with the exception of the title and a couple of chapters, the work is more properly to be described as a new book than as a new edition. There are also more than a hundred additional figures, including many new restorations.
A History of Land Mammals of the Western Hemisphere
By Prof. William Berryman Scott. Revised edition, rewritten throughout. Pp. xiv+786. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1937.) 32s. net.
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A History of Land Mammals of the Western Hemisphere. Nature 141, 894 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141894a0
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