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THIS book is intended as a guide to the study of each of the larger groups of invertebrates. About forty animals are considered in the space of 196 pages, consequently the descriptions of many of them—clear so far as they go, and accurate, the lapses being few and of little moment—are brief, though several, e.g. the squid, are more fully treated. The chapters deal respectively with the arthropoda, annelida, flat worms, polyzoa, mollusca, tunicates, echinoderms, Cnidaria, sponges, and protozoa. The revised edition contains instructions for the examination of six types not included in the first edition, namely, a fly, spider, oyster, sea-cucumber, Gonionemus, and a sea-anemone. In the account of the fly attention is directed to the “antennæ, with their pinnate terminal portion” (the portion referred to—the arista—is, however, not terminal but dorsal), but the palps are not mentioned, and no attempt is made to elucidate the structure of the proboscis.
A Course in Invertebrate Zoology. A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative Study of Invertebrate Animals.
By Prof. H. S. Pratt. Revised edition. Pp. xii + 228. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1915.) Price 6s.
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A Course in Invertebrate Zoology A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative Study of Invertebrate Animals . Nature 96, 563 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/096563a0
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