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THIS forms the first part of Vol. I. of a handbook of zoology, to be completed in five volumes, in the preparation of which about forty authors have agreed to take part. An introduction (50 pp.) to the Protozoa by Prof. Rhumbler is followed by an account (60 pp.) of the Rhizopoda by the same author and of the Flagellata by Dr. V. Jollos, and by the first few pages of the section on the Sporozoa by Prof. M. Hartmann. After the general account of each order is given a scheme of classification into sub-orders, groups, families, and, in some cases, genera, with short diagnoses of each. While the treatment of most of the groups is adequate, the very brief account of Entamceba is not consonant with the importance of this genus, of which no figure is given. The latest references in the list of works on Rhizopoda relate to papers published in 1916, and this suggests that publication has been delayed. The section on the flagellates contains a number of good new figures, and the list of references includes papers published in 1921 and 1922, but the account of the collared flagellates is very short and inadequate.
Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tiemiches.
Begründet von Prof. Dr. Willy Kükenthal. Herausgegeben von Dr. Thilo Krumbach. Erster Band: Protozoa, Porifera, C"lenterata, Mesozoa. Erste Lieferung. Pp. 192. (Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1923.) 9s.
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Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tiemiches. Nature 112, 649 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112649a0
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