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THIS, the fifth edition of Sir Arthur Keith's textbook, will be heartily welcomed, as it has occupied for many years a somewhat unique position. It embodies various distinct improvements over the fourth edition which appeared in 1923, but in spite of the accumulation of new facts and new points of view since that date, the author is to be congratulated on having been able to preserve the volume from undue expansion. His clear and popular style of exposition conveys to the readers whom he has in view—students of medicine—the end results of the work of em-bryologists better than perhaps any other textbook. The text is reduced to the minimum consistent with clarity. Much detail has necessarily been omitted, but the needs of the medical student have been in this respect kept in view. Although ideas differ regarding the relative importance of facts of observation and interpretation, Sir Arthur Keith's selection, in view of his long and varied experience, may be accepted, at least so far as organogenesis is concerned, as satisfactory.
Human Embryology and Morphology.
By Sir Arthur Keith. Fifth edition. Pp. viii + 558. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1933.) 32s. 6d. net.
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B., T. Human Embryology and Morphology . Nature 133, 195 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133195a0
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