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Now that original observers in every branch of natural history are to be found in all civilised countries, it is only by means of such reports as this that the working naturalist can keep himself acquainted with the actual state even of that department of his science which he himself more particularly cultivates. When, as in the present case, a man of real eminence as a naturalist has at his command all the chief languages of Europe, and gives us year by year no mere dry list of papers but full analyses accompanied by critical remarks, we feel that it is not easy to exaggerate the importance of his labours as affecting the general progress of zoology. For the sake of any worker who may be unacquainted with Prof. Leuckart's reports, we may mention that they embrace the groups Vermes, Echinodermata, Cœlenterata, and Protozoa, as defined by German writers. The Rotiferi and Bryozoa are included under the Vermes.
Literature of Natural History.—Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der niederen Thiere während der Jahre 1866 und 1867.
Von Dr. Rudolph Leuckart. (Berlin, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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Literature of Natural History.—Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der niederen Thiere während der Jahre 1866 und 1867. Nature 1, 236 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001236a0
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