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FROM the equator to thirty-five degrees north the western Atlantic, with its neighbouring shores and rivers, can supply a group of stalk-eyed Crustacea not easily surpassed in interest by such a fauna from any other region in the world. The descriptions relating to this group lie scattered over numerous treatises. Dr. C. G. Young has conceived the meritorious idea of bringing them together under one cover. He modestly speaks of his performance as a hand-list for the use of collectors. Handiness and usefulness should therefore be among its characteristic features. As it lays no claim to originality, the virtues of accuracy, completeness and condensation might have been expected. In place of these there is offered to the student a volume expansively and expensively printed; serious omissions are balanced by a parade of unneeded trivialities; whilst from one end to the other slovenliness prevails in the use of older authorities and neglect or ignorance of those that are more recent. Like the curate with a questionable egg at an episcopal breakfast table, one might say of this book that “parts of it are good, my lord,” but no one can tell which parts without consulting the very authorities which its publication presumes to be out of reach.
The Stalk-eyed Crustacea of British Guiana, West Indies, and Bermuda.
By Charles G. Young, Dublin, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, lately of the British Guiana Medical Service. 8vo. Pp. xix + 514; 7 plates, coloured, and numerous outlines. (London: Watkins, 1900.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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S., T. The Stalk-eyed Crustacea of British Guiana, West Indies, and Bermuda . Nature 64, 98–99 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064098a0
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