The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates, including Man

Abstract

THIS comprehensive work, of nearly 1900 quarto pages carrying more than 700 text-figures, has grown out of Prof. Ariens Kappers' “Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System”, of now more than fifteen years back. The present is a new treatise, retaining however the orientation which Prof. Kappers' earlier treatise had in view. The collaboration of the joint authors has been happy in extending the first-hand touch of the book with current research and research material to both sides of the Atlantic. The Amsterdam Institute of Brain-Research and the Laboratory of Comparative Neurology of the University of Michigan have each supplied their special contributions to the making of the work. But the whole compilation is one harmonious exposition directed throughout to the same main objects, and viewed from a single steady point of view. A bibliography, impressively liberal in scale, is appended to each chapter. The several chapters are themselves of almost monographic proportions, but their scope is always kept broad.

The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates, including Man

By Prof. C. U. Ariens Kappers Prof. G. Carl Huber Prof. Elizabeth Caroline Crosby. Vol. 1. Pp. xviii + 864. Vol. 2. Pp. xii + 865 1845. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936.) 63s. net.