A standard text. Contents: general considerations of the animal form; the phylum chordata; essential features of lower types; general features of chordate development; comparative anatomy of the integumental skeleton; the endoskeleton (3 chapters); comparative anatomy of the muscular system; comparative anatomy of the coelom and the digestive and respitory systems; comparative anatomy of the circulartoy system; comparative anatomy of the urogenital system; comparative anatomy of the nervous system and the sense organs.