NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 



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will serve as a useful reference source for 

 occidental students. 



DATEN UND TABELLEN FUR DEN 

 PRAKTIKER. 



By H. von Hoesslin. Georg Thieme 



3.2.5 marks 4 x 6f; 98 (paper) Leipzig 

 A useful little compilation of numerical 

 data of interest primarily to medical men, 

 but also to physiologists, anatomists, and 

 students of human biology generally. 

 The range of facts presented is wide. 

 Every biologist will find this volume 

 worth a great deal more than it costs as a 

 handy reference source. 



IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. A 

 Study of the Opposition to and Regulation of 

 Immigration into the United States. 

 By Roy L. Garis. The Macmillan Co. 



$4.00 5^ x 8f ; xv + 376 New York 



A heavily documented review of the 

 immigration legislation of the United 

 States, which will be useful as a reference 

 work. The book is introduced by a 

 Foreword by Mr. Albert Johnson, chair- 

 man of the House committee on immigra- 

 tion and naturalization. 



GUIDE TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOM- 

 ETRY AND ANTHROPOSCOPY. 

 By Chas. B. Davenport. 



Eugenics Research Assoc. 

 75 cents Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



4 * 6f ; 53 

 A useful little handbook of instruction 

 in anthropometric technique, primarily 

 intended for the eugenic field worker. 

 It constitutes the first number of a series 

 contemplated by the Eugenics Research 

 Association. 



ZOOLOGY 



DE LINNE A JUSSIEU: Mithodes de la 

 Classification et Idee de Serie en Botanique 

 et en Zoologie (_ij40—r/po). 

 By Henri Daudin. Felix Alcan 



2.5 francs Paris 



5I x 8f; ii + 2.64 (paper) 

 CUVIER ET LAMARCK: Les Classes 

 Zoologizes et I'ldee de Serie Animale 

 Q1J90-1830). 



By Henri Daudin. Felix Alcan 



60 francs Paris 



5^ x 8f ; Vol. I, xiii + 460 (paper) 

 Vol. II, 338 (paper) 



The history of the theory and practice 

 of taxonomic classification is, in a very 

 considerable sense, the history of zoology 

 as a whole. These three volumes by 

 Dr. Daudin can only be regarded as a 

 masterly accomplishment of an extremely 

 difficult task. They constitute a con- 

 tribution of first importance to the litera- 

 ture of the history of science. 



Because of the magnitude and difficulty 

 of the task the author has wisely set 

 certain limitations upon his work. The 

 first and most important is that he leaves 

 to one side the question of genera and 

 species and confines his attention to phyla. 

 He shows how the supposedly continuous 

 series — the Scala naturae — which was in 

 the mind of the earlier taxonomists, came 

 to be replaced by the great independent 

 natural groups which today we regard 

 as constituting the animal kingdom. 



Another limitation is that, in the later 

 period, he confines his attention largely 

 to the French work. This however is 

 justified because in the period of which he 

 was writing France was the center of the 

 zoological world. Cuvier and Lamarck 

 were the great figures, with Etienne 

 Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Latreille, Savigny, 

 de Blainville, and Serres as the stars of 

 lesser relative magnitude, but still of 

 great absolute brightness. 



