A Manual Of Practical Zoology Chordates

It is the pleasant duty of the author to thank the kind and generous readers for the warm and cordial reception accorded by them to the previous editions. The suggestions and encouraging opinions from the colleagues and students have prompted the author to bring out an early and revised New Edition. The bringing out of the present edition of this book has given the author an opportunity to revise and improve it. Alterations and additions have been made practically in all the chapters. The following new topics have been added in the respective chapters: (i) several new birds and mammals in the chapters of museum specimens of birds and mammals; (ii) new microscopic slides in the respective chapters of microscopic slides; (iii) several new embryological slides in the respective chapters of embryological slides; (iv) a new chapter of Skeleton of Scoliodon has been added afresh in this edition; (v) several new exercises have been included in the section of Experimental Physiology. By the inclusion of the above chapters the present edition will be more useful to the readers. Although maximum efforts have been made to eradicate the misprints and mistakes of the previous edition but even then the author cannot claim the removal of all the misprints due to the printers devil. The author is extremely thankful to his wife Smt. Preeti Singh for her kind co-operation during the revision of this book. The author further expresses his thanks to the generous readers who helped him by giving valuable suggestions for the improvement of the book.
Suggestions for the further improvement of the book will be thankfully acknowledged and incorporated in future editions.