NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 



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cattle. The genetics of more than thirty 

 characters has been studied. Dr. Gowen's 

 own outstanding work in this field makes 

 him the person of choice to do such a 

 comprehensive and critical review as this. 



GENETICS OF DOMESTIC CATS. 

 By Ruth C. Bamber (Mrs. Bisbee). 



Martinus Nijhoff 

 4.40 guilders The Hague 



€\ x 9 f; 86 (paper) 

 The domestic cat has furnished some 

 entertaining genetic puzzles. It is a 

 valuable service which Mrs. Bisbee has 

 performed in bringing together and criti- 

 cally reviewing all the scattered literature 

 in the field. She says that the problem of 

 the tortoise-shell male "is by no means 

 settled." 



MENDELISM. 



By Reginatu C. Punnet t. The Macmillan Co. 

 $3.00 4! x 7! ; xv -f- -liS New York 

 The seventh edition of one of the earliest 

 and best popular expositions of the princi- 

 ples of Mendelian inheritance. The chief 

 alterations in the revision relate to 

 Goldschmidt's work on intersexes, and 

 the chromosome theory of genetic phenom- 

 ena. 



GENETISCHE ANALYSE VAN KLEU- 

 REN, VEERPATRONEN, TINTEN EN 

 AFTEEKENINGEN BIJ POSTDUIVEN. 

 By C. J. A. C. Bol. Martinus Nijhoff 



5 guilders The Hague 



6f x 9I; 108 (paper) 

 A detailed account of an investigation 

 of the genetics of color and pattern in the 

 plumage of carrier pigeons. There is a 

 bibliography of twenty titles. 



GENERAL BIOLOGY 



AUS DEM LEBEN DER BIENEN. 

 By K. v. Frisch. Julius Springer 



4.Z0 marks 4! x -j\\ x + 149 Berlin 



DIE LEHRE VON DER VERERBUNG. 

 By Richard Goldschmidt. Julius Springer 



4.80 marks 4! x -j\; vi + 2.17 Berlin 

 EINFUHRUNG IN DIE WISSENSCHAFT 

 VOM LEBEN ODER ASCARIS. 2 vols. 

 By Richard Goldschmidt. Julius Springer 



8.80 marks for 2. vols. Berlin 



4I x ji; xi + 340 



The first three numbers in a new series 

 of popular scientific treatises, having the 

 general title Verstandliche Wissenschaft. 

 The books are very attractively printed 

 and bound, abundantly and well illus- 

 trated. So far as one may judge from the 

 first numbers, the intrinsic merits of the 

 series would seem to warrant the predic- 

 tion of a considerable success for it. 



The first volume gives the best account 

 of the biology of the honey bee that we 

 have seen in equal space. A great deal 

 of attention is devoted to the experi- 

 mental work which has been done on the 

 behavior of the bee. 



The first of the volumes by Professor 

 Goldschmidt is an exposition of the 

 present state of knowledge of genetics. 

 The second, in two volumes, is a wide- 

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 animal world. Both are extremely well 

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 as a fine piece of literary work, calculated 

 to excite the interest and hold the atten- 

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ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 

 By Charles Elton. The Macmillan Co. 



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An interesting and original treatise on 

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