Outlines of Zoology

IN the case of a book written by such an experienced writer and teacher as Prof. Thomson, and especially at the appearance of a fifth edition, there is little room for critical comment. The qualities that have made this work such a successful handbook are well known to generations of Scotch students; the conciseness of its information, the caution of its statements, and the clearness of its comparisons. Even in its older form this text-book was notable for its close texture, for the compact nature of its information. Now that all the bearings of modern work upon its topics have been incorporated, it is a rendering not only of the outlines of zoology, but of much of the “corpus” of zoological knowledge, and he would indeed be a full man who could really possess the store of information, both old and new, that is contained in its pages.Outlines of Zoology.By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson. Fifth edition, revised. Pp. xxii + 855. (Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London: H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.) Price 12s. 6d. net.