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THE “Zoologisches Adressbuch ” issued by Friedlander for the Zoological Society of Germany was an invaluable work, but even its second edition, issued in 1911, has long been out-of-date. The present work, compiled by Dr. Hirsch of Utrecht, would be welcome if it did no more than take the place of that. It does more: it comprehends all biologists, “omnes investigatores, qui vitæ naturam ab omni parte indagant.” The lines of investigation are now so many and so diverse that there is danger of hedges growing up between them. Many workers fortunately insist on breaking through the hedges, and it is to help them to clasp hands with their fellow-workers on the other side that this directory has been produced. It is not a guide only to some 14,000 individuals and their subjects of study, but refers also under the heading “Laboratoria” to more than 6000 institutions where biological studies are carried on. At the end is a list of periodicals, but since these number only 357, it is so manifestly incomplete that it is scarcely worth while to notice such omissions as NATURE and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
Index Biologorum: Investigatores, Laboratoria, Periodica.
Edidit G. Chr. Hirsch. Editio Prima. Pp. iv + 545. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928.) 27 gold marks.
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Index Biologorum: Investigatores, Laboratoria, Periodica . Nature 122, 91 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122091a0
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