Elements of Zoology: Embracing a View of Life As Manifested in the Various Gradations of Organized Beings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Elements of Zoology: Embracing a View of Life as Manifested in the Various Gradations of Organized Beings

The illustrative woodcuts are confined chiefly to the elucidation of organic structure an engraved atlas of the leading orders and genera of animals is proposed to be afterwards published as a suitable accompaniment.

In using this work as a class book for junior pupils, certain portions may be at first selected; as the sections on the senses and instinct, or a class of animals, as the mammalia birds insects while, to the advanced stu dent, a course of more extended reading, as pointed out in the authors subjoined, may be followed, along with the perusal of the entire treatise.

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