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ALTHOUGH students of most nationalities are now well provided with text-books of palæontology, no comprehensive work of reference giving a complete survey of existing knowledge of the subject has appeared since the publication of Zittel's famous “Handbuch der Palæontologie” (1876-1893). To remedy this deficiency a new “Handbuch” (a term the connotation of which appears to have undergone a process of evolution) is now in course of preparation under the general editorship of Prof. O. H. Schindewolf. The collaboration of nearly fifty specialists, belonging to several nationalities, has been secured for this work, which it is proposed to publish in twenty volumes, the majority of which will consist of several Lieferungen. The appearance of the first part of this huge undertaking is thus an event of some importance to palaeontologists.
Handbuch der Paläozoologie
Herausgegeben von O. H. Schindewolf. Band 6: Gastropoda. Lieferung 1, Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. Pp. viii+240. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1938.) 45 gold marks.
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Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Nature 142, 1057 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421057a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421057a0