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  ZOOLOGIST. 
  

  

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  OF 
  NEW 
  BOOKS. 
  

  

  Blood 
  Immunity 
  and 
  Blood 
  Relationship. 
  By 
  George 
  H. 
  F. 
  

   Nuttall, 
  M.A., 
  M.D., 
  &c. 
  Including 
  Original 
  Researches 
  

   by 
  G. 
  S. 
  Graham-Smith, 
  M.A., 
  M.B., 
  &c, 
  and 
  T. 
  S. 
  P. 
  

   Strangeways, 
  M.A., 
  M.E.C.S. 
  Cambridge 
  : 
  at 
  the 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  Press. 
  

  

  This 
  book 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  profound 
  importance 
  to 
  evolutionists. 
  

   Owing 
  to 
  the 
  "imperfection 
  of 
  the 
  geological 
  record" 
  the 
  question 
  

   of 
  the 
  inter-relationship 
  among 
  animals 
  has 
  been 
  largely 
  an- 
  

   swered 
  by 
  the 
  evidence 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  similarities 
  of 
  structure 
  

   in 
  existing 
  forms. 
  To 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  generation 
  who 
  have 
  

   followed 
  advanced 
  evolutionary 
  discussions, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  remembered 
  

   that 
  the 
  controversy 
  once 
  largely 
  centred 
  on 
  the 
  zoological 
  position 
  

   that 
  man 
  held 
  in 
  comparison 
  with 
  other 
  animals 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  Huxley 
  

   separated 
  the 
  Primates 
  into 
  Anthropoids 
  (Man), 
  Sirniidse 
  (Apes), 
  

   and 
  Lemuridae 
  (Serai-Apes) 
  ; 
  whilst 
  to-day 
  the 
  usual 
  method 
  is 
  

   to 
  place 
  Man 
  and 
  Apes 
  in 
  one 
  Order 
  — 
  the 
  Anthropoidea. 
  Darwin, 
  

   as 
  is 
  well 
  known 
  to 
  all 
  who 
  take 
  any 
  interest 
  in 
  the 
  question, 
  

   apart 
  from 
  similarities 
  of 
  structure, 
  directed 
  attention 
  in 
  his 
  

   ' 
  Descent 
  of 
  Man 
  ' 
  to 
  the 
  wonderful 
  evidence 
  afforded 
  by 
  the 
  

   study 
  of 
  " 
  embryonic 
  development." 
  The 
  investigation 
  of 
  blood- 
  

   relationship 
  is 
  the 
  latest 
  discovery 
  in 
  our 
  growing 
  knowledge 
  of 
  

   the 
  method, 
  or 
  rather 
  journey, 
  of 
  animal 
  evolution. 
  As 
  Dr. 
  

   Nuttall 
  has 
  already 
  elsewhere 
  remarked, 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  results 
  

   obtained 
  with 
  the 
  Anthropoidea— 
  which 
  applies 
  also 
  to 
  other 
  

   groups 
  of 
  animals 
  — 
  a 
  common 
  property 
  has 
  persisted 
  in 
  the 
  

   bloods 
  of 
  certain 
  groups 
  of 
  animals 
  " 
  throughout 
  the 
  ages 
  which 
  

   have 
  elapsed 
  during 
  their 
  evolution 
  from 
  a 
  common 
  ancestor, 
  

   and 
  this 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  differences 
  of 
  food 
  and 
  habits 
  of 
  life." 
  We 
  

   have 
  already 
  referred 
  in 
  these 
  pages 
  (Zool. 
  1902, 
  p. 
  38) 
  to 
  

   Friedenthal's 
  experimental 
  proof 
  of 
  blood-relationship 
  between 
  

   Man 
  and 
  the 
  Anthropoid 
  Apes. 
  We 
  now 
  read 
  that 
  Landois, 
  in 
  

   1875, 
  established, 
  by 
  his 
  experiments 
  in 
  blood-transfusion, 
  that 
  

  

  