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IN these days of drastic economy it is becoming ever more difficult to find means for the publication of scientific work, especially when it has little or no direct bearing upon utilitarian problems. The systematic zoologist in particular has to content himself as a rule with as little as possible in the way of paper, letterpress, and illustrations, and it will probably be a long time before we see again in this country a series of zoological monographs comparable with that which embodies the results of the Challenger Expedition. Other countries, however, appear to be somewhat less embarrassed as to ways and means, and we are glad to welcome the appearance of a new Dutch periodical entitled Capita Zoologica, under the editorship of Prof. Dr. E. D. van Oort, Director of the State Museum of Natural History at Leiden. This publication will consist of a series of large quarto memoirs on systematic zoology, which will be issued separately as complete works as occasion requires. The first two are already published, dealing respectively with the free-living Terricolous Nematodes of Holland, by Dr. J. G. De Man, and with the Rhizostomatous Medusae, by Dr. Gustav Stiasny. Both memoirs are fairly copiously, though by no means extravagantly, illustrated, and they form solid and valuable contributions to our knowledge of the groups with which they deal.
Capita Zoologica. Verhandelingen op Systematisch-Zoologisch Gebied.
Onder Redactie van Prof. Dr. E. D. Van Oort. Deel I, Aflevering 1, Nouvelles Recherches sur les Nématodes libres terricoles de la Hollande. Par Dr. J. G. De Man. Pp. 62+14 plates. 10 guilders. Deel I, Aflevering 2, Studien über Rhizostomeen mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna des Malaiischen Archipels nebst einer Revision des Systems. Von Dr. Gustav Stiasny. Pp. viii + 176 + 5 plates, ('s Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1921.) 16 guilders.
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D., A. Capita Zoologica Verhandelingen op Systematisch-Zoologisch Gebied . Nature 109, 513 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109513a0
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