| + + | Nation. 80: 314. Ap. 20, ‘05. 2930w. (Review of Vol. III.) |
“It is everywhere conscientious and never hurried.” Christian Gauss.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 209. Ap. 8, ‘05. 4100w. (Detailed review of Vol. III.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 250w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Cambridge natural history. [*]$4.25. Macmillan.
This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’ (leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’ (teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)
“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack; in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions better treated.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 423. My. 25, ‘05. 1140w. |
“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”
| + + + | Nature. 72: 103. Je. 1, ‘05. 1990w. |
“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology and classification.” Theo. Gill.