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IT is a defect of the great majority of text-books of histology that, being intended chiefly for medical students, they wholly neglect all vertebrate classes except the mammals. As a result, students of zoology either learn no histology, or, being led into the subject by men whose interest is limited to one class, and even to one species, acquire a slight superficial knowledge with the same limitation. The book under review attempts to tackle the subject in a less limited manner. Inevitably, because of the vast preponderance of work done on mammals, it is heavily influenced by our knowledge of the microscopic anatomy of that class ; but it is rich in descriptions of histological structures in other classes. Thus, the chapter on the integument deals with the skins of the dogfish, of teleostean fishes, of the frog, reptiles, birds and mammals ; that on excretory organs discusses separately the pronephric, mesonephric and metasnephric kidneys, as illustrated in such animals as the hag-fish, the frog and the mammal.
Microscopic Anatomy of Vertebrates
By Prof. James I. Kendall. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. 354. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1947.) 30s. net.
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MURRAY, P. Microscopic Anatomy of Vertebrates. Nature 162, 430 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162430a0
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