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WITH THE appearance of “Pars 14” (published in 1938 but only recently received by NATURE) the great “Animalium Cavernarum Catalogue”, compiled by Dr. Benno Wolf and published by Dr. W. Junk, reaches completion. Anyone who has followed the development of this work must have been astounded at the number of inhabited caves which it revealed, at the extent and variety of cave faunas (the index to the animals itself occupies 96 pages), and at the vast number of papers which have been written about them. The completed work is in three volumes, the first including introduction and bibliography (pp. 10S); the second containing a list of the caves, witli literature references to each and the names of the animals recorded from each (pp. 616); and the last containing a systematic list of the animals, with references to the caves in which they have been found and to the recorders (pp. 918). The three volumes are thoroughly indexed, one index of 46 pages referring to the caves, the other (96 pp.) to the animals. the bibliography is itself alphabetically arranged so that it serves as a guide to authors. the Supplement carries the information about cave faunas up to the end of 1935.
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Cave Animals. Nature 144, 974–975 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144974e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144974e0