Abstract
THIS book has very great positive merits and very slight defects. Though it is packed with facts, and can be recommended to students preparing for examinhtions, vet it is never dull. Prof. Thomson describes animals, not as corpses, but as living creatures with interesting habits that depend largely on their structure. The method leads to expansion, and yet this excellent zoological text-book is a single royal octavo of hardly more than eight hundred pages. Though our author, to use an American term, “enthuses” his readers, he does not waste words over it.
Outlines of Zoology.
By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xix + 856. (Edinburgh and London: Young J. Pentland, 1906.) Price 15s.
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H., F. Outlines of Zoology . Nature 74, 294–295 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074294c0
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