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WE can now welcome the appearance of volume 2 of the new “Parker and Haswell”(volume 1 was reviewed in NATURE of October 5). It is the volume dealing with the Chordata, a phylum in which important advances in our knowledge of both fact and theory have been made and needed incorporation to bring it up to date. Its format, like its companion volume, is larger than that of the previous five editions, the last of which was published in 1930, and the type is slightly larger. The pages number 758 as against 683 of the previous edition. More space has also been gained by the omission of the two general chapters on distribution and philosophy. Older readers will perhaps regret the loss of these, but, however much they might have desired their retention, it is fair to say they only represented a resume of our knowledge on these topics forty-three years ago. It is justly pointed out in the preface that to have brought them up to date would have involved their expansion, and consequent enlargement of the volume beyond reasonable bounds. The space thus gained has been used for the incorporation of a very considerable amount of recent information.
A Text-Book of Zoology
By the late Prof. T. Jeffery Parker the late Prof. William A. Haswell. Sixth edition. Vol. 2. Revised by Dr. C. Forster-Cooper. Pp. xxiii + 758. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 36s. net.
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O'DONOGHUE, C. A Text-Book of Zoology. Nature 147, 278–279 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147278a0
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