Economic Biology for Students of Social Science

Abstract

THE author rather seeks to disarm criticism by stating in the preface that much ground was of necessity left untouched, and that the critic who cavils at this restriction must be even more ambitious than herself ! It is not so much the ground which has not been covered, but the whole point of view from which the book is written which calls for criticism. It deals briefly with the structure and life histories of those animal types which students of biology are required to study during their course in social and household science at King's College for Women. There are already a number of text-books of zoology which do the same sort of thing, and since this is a specialised course, which has special reference to social science and applied biology, it surely would have enhanced the value of this book if those applied aspects had been dealt with in detail, and the student referred to one of the general text-books for structure and anatomy. Economic Biology for Students of Social Science. By Dr. Philippa C. Esdaile. Part 1. Harmful and Useful Animals. Pp. xv + 175. (London: University of London Press Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.