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THIS admirable little book, which was designed for students of the University of Minnesota, is accurately described in its title. It gives the salient features of the anatomy of the three animals with which it deals in the form of directions for their dissection. It has the virtue that it is concise, but one feels that students might have been helped by more detailed statements of dissection procedures. Unlike many British text-books, there is some treatment of the muscles ; it is perhaps to be regretted that they were not a little more fully treated in the spiny dog-fish. The illustrations are rather few but they are clear and pleasant to look at ; the last point is important, as increasing the likelihood that they will be studied. It would have been an advantage to have given some very simple sketches showing dissection methods. The book is clearly printed on thick paper, the pages held together between card covers by metal rings which enable the book to lie flat on a bench.
Guide to the Study of the Anatomy of the Shark, Necturus, and the Cat
By Prof. Samuel Eddy Prof. Clarence P. Oliver Asst. Prof. John P. Turner. Second edition. Pp. vii + 115. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1947.) 12s. net.
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MURRAY, P. Guide to the Study of the Anatomy of the Shark, Necturus, and the Cat. Nature 161, 955 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161955d0
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