Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden

Abstract

THE first article on the speed and height of the flight of birds is a very brief account of the subject. In the second one, on the respiration of insects (about 80 pages), the function of the spiracles and the movements which ventilate the tracheae are discussed, and the principal methods for investigating the movements are described and illustrated. Due attention is given to the physical and chemical aspects of the problem, e.g. the technique of gas microanalysis. The third article discusses the flight of insects and of birds and the methods which have been employed in the elucidation of the movements and of their mechanics.

Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden.

Prof. Dr.

Emil

Abderhalden

Herausgegeben von. Lieferung 199. Abt. 9: Methoden zur Erforschung der Leistungen des tierischen Organismus, Teil 4, Heft 2. Methoden der Erforschung bestimmter Funktionen bei einzelnen Tierarten. Methoden zur Erforschung des Wogelzuges, von J. Thlenemann; Methoden zur Behandlung der Atemphysiologie der Insekten, von Albert Koch; Die Verfahren zur Erforschung der Tierfluges, von Oskar Prochnow. Pp. 123–294. (Berlin und Wien: Urban und Schwarzenberg, 1926.) 7.50 gold marks.