The alligator and its allies

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Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Alligator Mississippiensis. (After Ditmars.)
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By
Albert M. Reese, Ph.D.
Professor of Zoölogy in West Virginia University Author of “An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology”
With 62 Figures and 28 Plates
G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1915
Copyright, 1915 BY ALBERT M. REESE The Knickerbocker Press, New York
The purpose of this volume is to bring together, in convenient form for the use of students of zoölogy, some of the more important details of the biology, anatomy, and development of the Crocodilia. For obvious reasons the American Alligator is the species chiefly used.
In the first chapter the discussion of the alligator is largely the result of the personal observations of the author; the facts in regard to the less familiar forms are taken from Ditmars and others. The description of the skeleton, with the exception of short quotations from Reynolds, is the author’s.