132 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
A Text-Book of Zoology. By T. Jerrery Parker, D.Se., 
F.R.S.; and Wirtram A. Hasweti, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. 
Macmillan & Co., Limited. Two vols. 
Tuts notable publication appears under sad and unique 
circumstances. The death of Prof. Parker, which occurred just 
after the last sheets were passed for press, has been widely 
deplored. The two authors were respectively Professors of 
Biology at Otago and Sydney, were separated from each other 
during the greater part of their collaboration “‘ by a distance of 
1200 miles, and the manuscript, proofs, and drawings have had 
to traverse half the circumference of the globe on their journeys 
between the authors on the one hand, and the publishers, printers, 
artist, and engravers on the other.”’ 
When we call to mind our school-day text-book, which was 
that of T. Rymer Jones, we can well appreciate the difference of 
the zoology of to-day and then, by an even cursory examination 
of these two portly volumes; and although ‘The Zoologist’ is 
largely representative of what is generally understood as 
Ethology or Bionomics, our readers must still frequently require 
a handy authority for the solution of many zoological pro- 
blems which depend on a knowledge of Morphology, Embryo- 
logy, Organic Evolution, Paleontology, Distribution, and Physio- 
logy. This text-book is certainly for the student. “In spite of 
its bulk, the present work is strictly adapted to the needs of the 
beginner”; but besides this purpose—and we all have not the 
youth and time to go through a new course—its value is to be 
estimated as a work of reference. 
Our authors divide the animal kingdom into twelve “ phyla” 
or primary subdivisions:— Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, 
Platyhelminthes, Nemathelminthes, Trochelminthes, Molluscoida, 
Echinodermata, Annulata, Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Chordata. 
Each phylum where necessary is again reduced to classes. As © 
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