TY - JOUR AB - THE aim of this stately book is to show how the various types of animals have solved the fundamental problems of life, and how their struc-ture is to be interpreted in terms of their functions and environment. The keynote of the book is to keep the gratufate the author on the success of his for he has written a worthy successor to the once-famous, now forgotten “Anatomischphysiologische Uebersicht des Tierreiches,” by Bergmann and Leuckart. The outstanding merit of the achievement is in its unified or synthetic presentation of the facts—it is at once anatomical and physiological, cecological and evolutionist. This general biological outlook is very useful for the analytic student. TI - Structure and function1 JF - Nature DO - 10.1038/084538a0 DA - 1910-10-27 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/structure-and-function1-9CFPKS6iaa SP - 538 EP - 538 VL - 84 IS - 2139 DP - DeepDyve ER -