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FOR about a quarter of a century this book has had an apparently useful life as an introduction to zoological science.” With these words Prof. J. Arthur Thomson begins his short preface, and he is well and handsomely oentitled to them. The book is not a large one, but it abounds in information, and the author sets it all forth in an easy way, with the practised skill of an old hand at teaching. The first part contains a few eloquent chapters on such themes as the “Wealth of Life,” the “Web of Life,” and the “Social and Domestic Life of Animals,” and closes with a slighter sketch of the physiological functions and activities qf the body; the second part, which is copiously illustrated, deals with ostructure and classification; the third, in like manner, with embryology; and the fourth and last with the facts and theories of evolution.
The Study of Animal Life.
By Prof. J. A. Thomson. Revised edition. Pp. xvi + 477. (London: John Murray, 1917.) Price 6s. net.
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T., D. The Study of Animal Life . Nature 100, 143 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100143a0
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