Lehrbuch der Protozoenkunde

Abstract

THE study of the Protozoa has made very great progress during the last twenty years, so great that even those who devote themselves to this branch of knowledge have the utmost difficulty in keeping pace with its rapid advance. This state of things is due chiefly to the great practical importance of the Protozoa for medical, veterinary, and agricultural science, but also because the primitive forms of life give the clue to many biological problems of fundamental importance. Hence the number of those who occupy themselves with researches upon Protozoa has very much increased, both amongst professed zoologists and also amongst those to whom zoological questions are a secondary consideration; all such workers, however, whatever their aims, will welcome the publication of Prof. Doflein's treatise. This work is ostensibly the second edition of his well-known manual on the Protozoa as parasites and causes of disease, a most useful book in its time, though now left behind by the flowing tide of research; its parentage, however, is scarcely recognisable, since the second edition appears with new title, changed form, and greatly enlarged scope. The treatment of parasites and disease, though not neglected, takes a secondary place, and the work has become an exhaustive general treatise on the Protozoa. Lehrbuch der Protozoenkunde. Zweite Auflage der “Protozoen als Parasiten und Krankheitserreger.” By Dr. F. Doflein. Pp. x + 914; 825 figures. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1909.) Price 24 marks (unbound).