Abstract
THIS is one of the very few books which deal adequately with the fundamentals of the biochemistry and physiology of nutrition and with the applications of this knowledge to the feeding of farm animals. Since the first edition was published some nine years ago, much of the newer knowledge of nutrition has emerged, and this has meant extensive alterations in the sections on amino-acid, vitamin and mineral nutrition. In his preface, the author points out that owing to the limited opportunity which was enforced by war and its aftermath, it has been impossible to take account of the results of recent research in foreign countries, because the data have either remained unpublished or the journals containing them have not reached his desk. The student is warned by the author that he should not thereby gain a distorted picture of the progress of our knowledge of this very important field of physiology and chemistry. The present volume takes us up to the end of March 1946.
Animal Nutrition
By Prof. Leonard A. Maynard. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Agricultural Sciences.) Second edition. Pp. xviii + 494. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1947.) 25s.
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CUTHBERTSON, D. Animal Nutrition. Nature 160, 854 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160854b0
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