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(1) THIS excellent book is a sequel to Claude Bernard's famous “Lecons sur les phénomènes de la vie communs aux animaux et aux végétaux” (1878), and we are aware that this is I saying a great deal. It has not the luminosity and fascination of the French classic, but it is a substantial and original piece of work, to which we would give the heartiest welcome. Many books have compared the plant cell and the animal cell, the plant metabolism and the animal metabolism, and so on, but Prof. Wagner's aim is different. It is to show how the plant-organism and the animal-organism tackle the everyday problems of life. Organisations built on different lines find different, but in their way equally successful, solutions of the same problems, and the comparative study has been too much neglected. We have in this book an admirable guide.
(1) Vorlesungen über vergleichende Tier- und Pflansenkunde.
By Prof. Adolf Wagner. Pp. viii + 518. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1912.) Price 11 marks.
(2) Vergleichende Physiologic wirbelloser Tiere.
By Prof. H. Jordan. Erster Band: Die ErnÃhrung. Pp. xxii + 738. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913.) Price 24 marks.
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(1) Vorlesungen über vergleichende Tier- und Pflansenkunde (2) Vergleichende Physiologic wirbelloser Tiere. Nature 91, 211–212 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091211a0
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