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SOME three years ago Dr. Przibram, who is well known as a brilliant representative of the school of experimental zoologists, published “An Introduction to Experimental Morphology,” which met with wide acceptance. The present volume is an expansion of part of the “Introduction,” and forms an independent treatise on experimental embryology. It is to be followed by four other parts, dealing with regeneration, evolution, vitality, and function, and the whole will form a text-book of experimental zoology. If the subsequent parts are like the one before us in lucidity and thoroughness, Dr. Przibram will earn the gratitude of all interested in this dynamic aspect of the science; and who, nowadays, can afford to stand aloof? The present volume discusses, in the light of experimental results, the processes of fertilisation, cleavage, gastrulation, and differentiation, and sums up in an analysis of the influence of chemical stimuli, moisture, density of the medium, pressure, gravity, electricity and magnetism, light and heat. There is a copious and carefully executed bibliography, and the figures in the plates, which are partly compiled and partly original, are very clear and interesting.
Experimental-Zoologie.
Part i. Embryogenese. Eine Zusamnenfassung der durch Versuche ermittelten Gesetzmässigkeiten tierischer Ei-Entwicklung (Befruchtung, Furchung, Organbildung). By Dr. Hans Przibram. Pp. 125; 16 plates. (Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1907.) Price 7 marks.
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T., J. Experimental-Zoologie . Nature 77, 529 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077529a0
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