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THE attention of teachers and students in vertebrate anatomy who include the tortoise in the list of the animals they study by dissection, is directed to an account of the anatomy of that animal published by the Royal Dublin Society (vol. 20, No. 28, Dec. 1932). The late Dr. J. Stuart Thomson was engaged on the preparation of this memoir over a number of years with the view of providing an account of the principal structural features of the tortoise for his own and other senior students. The descriptions, in about eighty pages, of the external characters and the various systems of organs are systematic, clear and adequate, and are supported by twenty-five well-drawn plates. This useful paper is published at the reasonable price of 8s.
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Anatomy of the Tortoise. Nature 131, 396 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131396a0
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