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THESE manuals have both been written as guides to mammalian types which have been found suitable for laboratory purposes in the two universities at which the respective authors are engaged in teaching zoology. The use of the foetal pig as a type for dissection must of necessity be limited to universities and schools situated in towns, such as Chicago and Kansas, where packing plants are available as sources of supply, but the use of the rat has wider possibilities, and, for that reason, Prof. Hunt's manual will be specially welcome in Great Britain. Prof. Baumgartner;s manual is modelled on Marshall and Hurst's “Practical Zoology,” that is to say, clear directions for dissection are picked out in italics throughout. Prof. Hunt, on the other hand, has chosen to give a more or less connected account of the various systems and organs of the rat in which instructions for dissection are given in their appropriate places, but only incidentally. The former style has so many advantages in a book designed for the use of students that one almost regrets that Prof. Hunt did not adopt it for his book, particularly as it is almost sure to have a wider field of service.
(1) A Laboratory Manual of the Anatomy of the Rat.
By Prof. Harrison R. Hunt. Pp. viii + 123. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 6s. net.
(2) Laboratory Manual of the Foetal Pig.
By Prof. W. J. Baumgartner. Pp. xii + 57. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 4s. 6d. net.
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(1) A Laboratory Manual of the Anatomy of the Rat (2) Laboratory Manual of the Foetal Pig. Nature 116, 535 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116535b0
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