Elements of Natural History, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing Zoology, Botany and Geology, for Schools, Colleges and Families; Vertebrate Animals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Elements of Natural History, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing Zoology, Botany and Geology, for Schools, Colleges and Families; Vertebrate Animals
The design of this work is not to describe the characters and habits of every animal, nor the properties of every plant, mineral and rock on the surface of the earth; but to furnish to students in schools and colleges, and to read ers generally, a text-book from which they may acquire the principles of the science of Natural History, which of course includes the principles of classification, and learn how to recognize the differences and resemblances, and the various properties of organized beings, as well as of inor ganie matter.
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