Columbia University Biological Series. 



EDITED BY 



HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, 



Da Costa Professor of Biology in Columbia College. 



The first two volumes of this series were published in October ; the third 

 will be ready in April, cmd the fourth in October , i8g^. 



I. From the Greeks to Darwin. 



Buckram. 8vo. 



II. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates. 



Buckram. 8vo. 



III. Fishes, Living and Fossil. 



(/;/ Preparation^ 



IV. The Cell in Development and Inheritance. 



{In Preparation^ 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" The Columbia University of New York has decided to issue a series of small volumes on 

 Biology, under the editorship of Dr. Osborn, the Da Costa Professor of Biology. It is not to 

 be a library of elementary text-books in the ordinary sense of the term, but to consist chiefly 

 of works dealing with certain fundamental problems which will concern students who have 

 passed beyond preliminaries." — Natural Science (London). 



" If the other volumes in course of preparation by the professors in biology of Columbia 

 University are up to the high standard of the present one {Ainp/itoxits atid the Ancestry 

 of the Vertebrates'), that institution is to be congratulated upon the enterprise of those who 

 initiated the project." — The American Naturalist (Philadelphia). 



"The 'Columbia University Biological Series' is a new scientific publishing venture 

 undertaken by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., under the general editorial supervision of Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn. Numbers i and 2 of the series reach us, From the Greeks to Dariuin, 

 by H. F. Osborn, and Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates, by Arthur Willey. 

 Judging from these volumes, the Columbia Biological Series will be of the utmost interest to 

 students." — Philadelphia Evenijtg Telegram. 



" The ' Columbia University Biological Series,' as inaugurated by the Macmillans, opens 

 with a general review of the rise and progress of the evolution idea, from its first rudimentary 

 perception by the Greek mind to the full development wrought out by Darwin." — Milwaukee 

 Sentinel. 



MACMILLAN & CO., Publishers, 



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