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THIS publication completes the first half of the volume in this handbook dealing with methods of research for the study of life in fresh water. It opens with a chapter, by August Thienemann, on life in inland waters, giving in broad outline the conditions to be considered in a study of this zone of life and the connexions between the animate and inanimate components of the environment. There follow articles by H. Thomasson on the study of the microphyta of the limnetic littoral and deep zones, and by H. Gams on the higher water-plants. Einar Naumann gives a long account of methods of demonstration for the purpose of teaching limnobiology, with special reference to the plankton and neuston. Finally, T. Freidenfelt contributes a chapter on the mathematics to be employed, especially by those working on plankton, for testing the accuracy of technique and finding the true significance of results obtained by sample methods.
Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden.
Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Emil Abderhalden. Lieferung 184. Abt. 9: Methoden zur Erforschung der Leistungen des tierischen Organismus, Teil 2, 1 Hälfte, Heft 4. Methoden der Süsswasserbiologie. Pp. 653–852+xxiii. (Berlin und Wien: Urban und Schwarzenberg, 1926.) 10.20 gold marks.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 118, 691 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118691a0
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