Abstract
THIS is a carefully executed historical introduction to the study of biology, and should prove very useful to students. Its aim is to sketch the broad features of biological progress, “and to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives of the great leaders.” Prof. Locy has shown shrewd judgment and a praiseworthy restraint in his selection of subjects, the result being that the student can get from this book a general view of the development of biology, yet with enough concrete illustration and biographical information to be vivid. The author has evidently gone to the original documents, and he has had his reward; he has given us a book full of fresh interest and suggestion. In the course of years Prof. Locy has made a large collection of interesting portraits of biologists, many of which adorn the walls of his laboratory at Evanston, and point a moral too. Of this collection he exhibits a fine sample in this volume. Some of the rarer ones are unfamiliar even to biologists, and have been discovered only after long search in libraries.
Biology and its Makers; with Portraits and other Illustrations.
By Prof. W. A. Locy. Pp. xxvi + 469. (New York: Henry Holt and Co.; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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T., J. Biology and its Makers; with Portraits and other Illustrations . Nature 80, 95 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080095a0
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