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LESS than three years ago (NATURE, 131,76) we noticed the first edition of this carefully planned volume, each chapter of which has undergone revision by its writer. This edition is eighty pages longer than the first edition, which is largely due to expansion of the general introduction to certain of the sections, and to the insertion of short accounts of animals omitted in the first edition, for example, Piroplasma (Babesia), Gastrotricha, Nematomorpha and Acanthocephala. Other examples of additions which greatly improve the usefulness of the volume are: general observations on the importance to animals of the environment and of the internal medium; the anatomy and biology of the Metazoa; the general introduction to the Acoelomata; the fuller consideration of feeding and respiration and of the embryology of insects; the extension of the accounts of the Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera, and the short summary of digestion in the Cephalopoda. Twenty-nine new illustrations are provided, and, as in the first edition, the chapters on Protozoa, Crustacea and insects are particularly noteworthy for excellence of treatment.
The Invertebrata: a Manual for the Use of Students
By L. A. Borradaile F. A. Potts. With Chapters by Prof. L. E. S. Eastham and J. T. Saunders. Second edition. Pp. xv + 725. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935.) 25s. net.
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The Invertebrata: a Manual for the Use of Students. Nature 137, 255 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137255a0
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