Abstract
Traite de Zoologie, Anatomie, Systematique, Biologie, vol. XVII; Mammiferes; Les Orders: Anatomie, Ethologie, Systematique, parts 1 and 2, 2300 pp., illus.; published under the direction of Pierre-P. Grasse by Masson and Co., Paris, 1955. Paper F22,000; cloth F23,600 This seventeenth volume of the Traite de Zoologie is a welcome addition to the mammalogists library. In a large sense, it replaces volume 2 of Weber's “Die Saugetiere” which has been the standard reference work for students of mammals since 1928. The general plan of treatment is, for each living order, sections on anatomy, both skeletal and soft; reproduction; systematics; and a review of the fossil members. In some instances the comments on systematics do not stop at the generic level but include species …
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