Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

 May 1962 



CONSULTING EDITORS STATEMENT 



All of us who teach comparative anatomy 

 have regretted the passing, many years 

 ago, of that grand old classic Kingsley. 

 Here, at last, comes a book to fill the void. 

 Malcolm Jollie's modern, superbly illus- 

 trated, account of the structure of the 

 chordates was worth waiting for. This book 

 is written with impeccable scholarship 

 and draws not only from the literature 

 of the world but from long and pains- 

 taking original dissections. No single illus- 

 tration in this book has been "borrowed" 

 from another book. Each has been drawn, 

 and redrawn, until it shows with startling 

 clarity just what the reader wants to know 

 about almost any conceivable structure of 

 the whole wide range of chordates. Histo- 

 logical and embryological details are also 

 given wherever they serve to illuminate the 

 point under discussion. 



The theme of the book is evolution but 

 this is not shoved down the student's throat 

 as a cause. Malcolm Jollie, as any other 

 good teacher, believes that an intelligent 

 student, presented with logically arranged 

 and clearly explained facts, can reach cor- 

 rect conclusions. In this case, these conclu- 

 sions are that the process of evolution, im- 

 perfectly understood though it is, serves to 

 link together the glorious diversity and 

 complexity of the forms called chordates. 



Peter Gra\^ 



