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THIS is an interesting and delightful text-book of elementary zoology, combining some parts of “Animal Life” and “Animal Forms,” in the same series, with new material on classification, extinct forms, geographical distribution, special adaptations, instincts, and economic value. Beginning with chapters on the conditions of animal life and the principles of classification, the volume takes a survey of the most important classes from Protozoa to mammals. Then follow chapters on life-histories, the struggle for existence, adaptations, animal communities, commensalism and parasitism, protective resemblances and mimicry, the special senses, instinct and reason, and so on. When we compare a school-book on geography of a quarter of a century ago with the best modern school geography, we seem to breathe a different atmosphere, and so it is when we compare the natural history for schools which was in circulation twenty-five years ago with this lively, up-to-date, well thought-out, beautifully illustrated, and, in short, well adapted modern school text-book of zoology.
Animal Studies: a Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools and Colleges.
By David Starr Jordan V. L. Kellogg Harold Heath, of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Pp. 459; 259 figures. (New York and London: Appleton and Co., 1903.) Price 5s. net.
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T., J. Animal Studies: a Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools and Colleges . Nature 69, 220 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069220a0
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