Vertebrate Palæontology

Abstract

THIS well-printed textbook has been carefully prepared, and will be welcomed by both zoologists and geologists. The letterpress begins with a brief recapitulation of some elementary geology to refresh the memory of the zoologist; while each chapter is prefaced by enough anatomy and zoology to enable a geologist to appreciate the meaning of his fossils. Though nearly all the illustrations are taken (with acknowledgment) from other authors, most of them have been re-drawn in uniform style, and a few have been improved for the student by making them more diagrammatic. The whole bears the impress of a teacher who is actually engaged in research and has himself made many contributions to our knowledge of the fossil vertebrates about which he writes. The book is well up to date, as shown by the beautiful sketches of the restored skull of the oldest known amphibian, Ichihyostega, which was discovered recently in Greenland.

Vertebrate Palæontology.

By Prof. A. S. Romer. Pp. vii + 491. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1933.) 26s. 6d. net.