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IN view of the tremendous advances in our knowledge of the anatomy of fossil fishes during the past twenty years, the appearance of this little book should prove most opportune. A good deal of recent work, such as the classical researches of Stensio on the Cephalaspids and Placoderms, has been published in journals not readily accessible to the average student or teacher, who will welcome the concise summary of these and equally important papers by other workers provided by Mr. Moy-Thomas. The recent work of Brough, Gross, Heintz, Kiaer, Nielsen, Sàve-Söderbergh, Watson, Westoll, White and several other palæontologists, as well as that of Mr. Moy-Thomas himself, all finds a place in this volume of less than 150 pages, and the author is to be heartily congratulated upon the skill with which he has managed to reduce this mass of technical material to reasonable and readable limits. The book is at once competent; comprehensive, and concise, and may be confidently recommended to teachers and students of both zoology and geology. Evidence that it is right up to date is provided by the statement on p. 91 that the Cœlacanths start in the Upper Devonian and continue to the present day, and a reference in the list of literature to the first account in Great Britain of the recent discovery in South Africa of the living Latimeria.
Palæozoic Fishes
By J. A. Moy-Thomas. (Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects.) Pp. x + 150. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 5s. net.
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Biology. Nature 144, 1078 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441078c0
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