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THE aim of the editor and his forty-two expert collaborators has been to produce an account of the most trustworthy methods which have been employed in biological investigation. The first volume opens with an introduction to the mathematical treatment of biological questions including graphic methods, and this is followed by chapters on microscopical optics, including measuring, drawing, polarisation and ultramicroscopy, on vital staining, tissue culture, microdissection and microisolation, and on the methods for making permanent preparations and sections. The next part, on cytology, by Dr. K. Bělař, is noteworthy for the lists of the most suitable animals and plants for the study of cytoplasm, and in the succeeding part on methods for the examination of Protozoa he is equally helpful in indicating the most suitable examples for study. Chapters follow on histological and histochemical methods, on embryological and anatomical material, and on the micro-technique of invertebrates.
Methodik der wissenschaftlichen Biologie.
Herausgegeben von T. Páterfi. Baud 1: Allgemeine Morphologie. Pp. xiv + 1425. Band 2: Allgemeine Physiologie. Pp. x + 1219. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928.) 188 gold marks.
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Methodik der wissenschaftlichen Biologie . Nature 124, 223 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124223a0
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