Treatise of Zoology

O'DONOGHUE, C. H.

doi:10.1038/164765b0

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Treatise of Zoology

C. H. O'DONOGHUE

Nature volume 164, pages 765–766 (1949)Cite this article

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IN reviewing the first volume to be produced of this new "Treatise of Zoology", actually Volume 11 in the series (see Nature, February 19, p. 269), it was pointed out that in publishing a series of large volumes there is a danger that the earlier ones may become out of date before the later ones appear. The publishers seem to be doing their best to avoid this, since two further volumes are now to hand, and another, Volume 15, on birds, is announced to appear during the present year. It may be said at the outset that the present volumes fully maintain the high standard of printing and illustrating of their predecessor, and the coloured plates in both are very good. The practice of including a treatment of fossil groups in their systematic position, although from the nature of the material it cannot be so full as in the case of living groups, and of discussing their relationship is to be commended since it gives a more satisfying picture of the animal kingdom as a whole than dealing with them in separate and unrelated publications. It is a pity that the size of the animal illustrated is not indicated more consistently, as it is in the Coleoptera, particularly in the more unusual and bizarre forms.

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