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same author, published in 1951 and has especially been designed to serve 

 as a text in one-semester courses for premedical students. This book will only 

 offer the elementary principles of vertebrate anatomy. A companion volume 

 entitled "Representative Chordates" has been prepared for use in the practical 

 one-semester courses. 



The discussion and characterization of the successive systematical groups 

 of the phylum chordates which is lacking in the majority of textbooks on 

 comparative anatomy forms a great advantage of this book. Besides the many 

 other good aspects, such as the clearly written and consistently subdivided text 

 and the many easily surveyable. well labelled figures which illustrate the text 

 very conveniently, we feel that many comparative anatomical problems should 

 be markedly elucidated when more attention should have been paid to the 

 development of the various organ systems. This is particularly striking for the 

 chapters on the reproductive system where the bisexual character of its anlage 

 has not been focussed. the heart, the internal ear and other organ systems. 

 The total lack of references does not stimulate the students to supplemental 

 reading. 



P. D. NIEUWKOOP 



