A Student's Text-Book of Zoology (Classic Reprint)

In preparing the present work I have been actuated mainly by the desire to place before English students of Zoology a treatise in which the subject was dealt with on the lines followed with so much advantage by Glaus and his predecessors in their works on Zoology. My original intention was to bring out a new edition of Glaus Lchrhuch, revised and brought up to date, and a trace of this intention may be seen in a few pages of the present volume. But this plan was, for various reasons, soon given up, and the present treatise is, with the exception of about twenty pages, an entirely new work. For a successful study of Zoology it is necessary that the student should begin by making a thorough examination of individual animals, of their structure, of the functions of their parts, of their relation to the external world and to each other. This method of study by types, which was largely introduced into this country by Huxley, and is admirably exemplified by that authors book on the Crayfish is absolutely necessary as a preliminary to any thorough study of Zoology. By pursuing it the student acquires, if the animals are properly selected, a knowledge of the principal forms of animal life, and a basis from which more extended studies can be made. It is to assist these more extended studies that the present work is designed.
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