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IN this edition the author has largely rewritten his text, and has also expanded the book to include certain subjects which were not touched upon in the earlier edition. The sections on morphology and physiology have been extended, though the latter appears to deal largely with work published before the first edition of this book was issued. Two entirely new chapters are devoted to ecology, and to variation and heredity. Although the soil is mentioned as an environment, no suggestion is given of the richness of its fauna, nor are some of the common soil species attributed to this habitat. In the taxonomic section a large number of species has been added, though it is still possible to find omissions; but perhaps this is to be expected in a work of this size. More than one hundred new illustrations have been included, and an adequate bibliography is supplied to each chapter.
Protozoology
Prof.
Richard Roksabro
Kudo
By. Enlarged and completely rewritten edition of a “Handbook of Proto-zoology”. Pp. xi + 689. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1939.) 36s.
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Protozoology. Nature 146, 80 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146080d0
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