Abstract
“A CAREFUL drawing by a trained observer gives a better idea of appearances seen under the microscope than the best reproduction by photography can at present achieve.” This statement was called forth by the consideration of a book similar in idea to the present, and apparently one of the same series, the “Atlas of Fertilisation and Karyokinesis of the Ovum,” and was made a short time ago by Prof. Weldon in a notice of that book in NATURE. It is forcibly recalled by the present book, the authors of which have been at the pains to present photographic representations of preparations showing nerve-cells, mostly prepared by the method of Golgi, any and all of which representations might with the greatest advantage, so far as clearness and facility of comprehension is concerned, have been replaced by a careful drawing of the cells which it was designed to illustrate.
Atlas of Nerve-cells.
By M. Allen Starr, with the cooperation of Oliver S. Strong and Edward Leaming. Pp. x + 78. 53 plates. (Published for the Columbia University Press by Macmillan and Co., New York and London, 1896.)
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SCHÄFER, E. Atlas of Nerve-cells. Nature 54, 340–341 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054340a0
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