Abstract
TO the evolutionary biologist, especially if he is a field naturalist with tropical experience, there are few subjects more fascinating than the camouflage devices of the animal kingdom. It is only recently that NATURE reviewed what must remain for many a day the greatest comprehensive work on this subject, H. B. Cott's “Adaptive Coloration in Animals” (NATURE, 146, 144; 1940).
The Art of Camouflage
By Lt.-Col. C. H. R. Chesney. With four Chapters by J. Huddlestone. Pp. 252 + 12 plates. (London: Robert Hale, Ltd., 1941.) 8s. 6d. net.
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KERR, J. The Art of Camouflage. Nature 147, 758–760 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147758a0
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