Abstract
This excellent textbook adds one more to the considerable list of those which have come from the anatomists of the University of Vienna, where Dr. Fischel is professor of embryology. Its publication by Julius Springer is a guarantee of quality, and it maintains the Springer standard of excellence in the illustrations and press work. The first part (271 pages) is devoted to a clear and scholarly presentation of general and comparative embryology. The remainder is devoted to a thorough and intelligible account of human organogenesis. The literature of all countries has been thoroughly studied, and the great advances in understanding which have come through investigations in experimental embryology are well presented. They have made untenable in any but the most general sense the biogenetic law of Haeckel. The book is a clear and definite exposition of facts: there is little philosophic speculation in it. But the author does not believe
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