tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post7936588241653152616..comments2024-02-16T06:03:12.489-06:00Comments on BrummellBlog: Book Club: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatTheBrummellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08973380652057861796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post-34071874311091837812007-06-07T08:22:00.000-06:002007-06-07T08:22:00.000-06:00"well-drawn illustrations of biological specimens ..."well-drawn illustrations of biological specimens are very valuable, both for aesthetic reasons (pretty pictures in addition to complicated graphs in one's publications) and for accurate, repeatable species identification and elucidation of phenotypic variation (among other things)"<BR/><BR/>I definitely agree. I've been reading Gerhard Heilmann's 1927 book <I>The Origin of Birds</I> for the past few days, and even though it's a bit outdated the book is chock-full of beautiful life reconstructions and labeled skeletal diagrams; I've learned more anatomy in an evening with this book than I have previously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com