COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL SERIES. 



Designed for Independent Reading and as Text=Bool<s for Lecture and Laboratory 



Courses of Instruction. 



Edited by HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, 



Da Costa Professor of Zoology in Columbia University. 



VOL. I. FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN. The Development of the Evolution 

 Idea. By Henry Fairfield OsBORN, Sc.D. 8vo. Cloth. Price $2.00, w^/. 



" This is an attempt to determine the history of Evolution, its development and that of its ele- 

 ments, and the indebtedness of modern to earlier investigators. ... As a whole the book is admi- 

 rable. The author has been more impartial than any of those who have in part anticipated him in the 

 same line of work." — The Nation. 



VOL. II. AMPHIOXUS AND THE ANCESTRY OF THE VERTEBRATES. By 



Arthur Willey, Sc.D., Balfour Student of the University of Cambridge. 8vo. 

 Cloth. 135 illustrations. Price $2.50, net. 



" The observations on Amphioxus made before the second half of the present century, showed 

 that this remarkable animal bears certain resemblances to Vertebrates; and since then its interest in 

 this respect has gradually become more apparent. ... A consecutive history of the more recent 

 observations was, therefore, greatly needed by those whose opportunities did not permit them to follow 

 out the matter for themselves, and who will welcome a book written in an extremely lucid style by a 

 naturalist who can speak with authority on the subject." — Prof. W. Newton Parker, in Nature. 



VOL. m. FISHES, LIVING AND FOSSIL. An Introductory Study. By Bashford 

 Dean, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Zoology, Columbia University. 8vo. Cloth. 344 

 Illustrations. Price S2.50. 



" For the first time in the history of Ichthyology, students are now provided with an elementary 

 handbook affording a general view of the whole subject. . . . The last sixty pages of the volume 

 are devoted to a list of derivations of proper names, a copious bibliography, and a series of illustrated 

 tabular statements of the anatomical characters of the great groups of fishes. These sections bear 

 signs of having been prepared most carefully and laboriously, and form an admirable appendix for 

 purposes of reference." — Arthur S.mith Woodward, in Natural Science, I^ondon. 



VOL. IV. THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND INHERITANCE. By Edmund B. 

 Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Invertebrate Zoology, Columbia University! Svo. Cloth. 

 142 illustrations. Price S3.00. 



Extracts from the Preface. — "This volume is the outcome of a course of lectures, delivered 

 at Columbia University in the winter of 1892-93, in which I endeavored to give to an audience of 

 general university students some account of recent advances in cellular biology, and more especially 

 to trace the steps by which the problems of evolution have been reduced to problems of the cell. . . . 

 The rapid advance of discovery has made it seem desirable to amplify the original plan of the work, 

 in order to render it useful to students as well as to more general readers. . . . This book does not, 

 however, aim to be a treatise on general histology." 



VOL. V. THE PROTOZOA, {hi preparation.) By Gary N. Calkins, M,A. 



VOL. VI. AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY. {In prepara- 

 tion.) By Oliver Strong, Ph.D. 



ATLAS OF NERVE-CELLS. By M. Allen Starr, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Diseases 

 of the Mind and Nervous System, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Depart- 

 ment, Columbia University; etc., etc. With the cooperation of OLIVER S. STRONG, 

 A.M., Ph.D., Tutor in Neurology, Columbia University, and Edward Leaming, 

 M.D., F.R.P.S., Instructor in Photography, Columbia Uriiversity. Illustrated with 53 

 Artotype Plates and 13 Diagrams. Royal Quarto. Cloth. Price gio.oo. 



"Dr. Starr's work will enable the numerous students and practitioners who cannot undertake 

 original research to understand completely the new facts which have been disclosed. The reproduc- 

 tions of micro-photographs leave nothing to be desired, and the details of nerve structure are shown 

 with the minutest accuracy and with the most perfect clearness. The plates are accompanied by an 

 admirably lucid text. . . ." — The .fj't-w/';/^ 5««, New York. 



AN ATLAS OF THE FERTILIZATION AND KARYOKINESIS OF THE OVUM. 



By Edmund B. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Invertebrate Zoology in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, with the cooperation of Edward Leaming, M.D., F.R.P.S., Instructor in 

 Photography, Columbia University. Royal Quarto. Cloth. Price S4.00. 



"This work is of a very high order, and both by its merit and its opportuneness is a noteworthy 

 contribution to science. It takes its place at once as a classic, and is certainly one of the most nota- 

 ble productions of pure science which have appeared in America." — From a Review by Ch.\rles S. 

 MiNOT, in Science. 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 



66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 



