Abstract
AGRICULTURISTS will be misled by the title of this book, if they expect to find any reference in it to farm animals which especially interest and concern them, such as horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs. There are no descriptions of these animals in this work upon agricultural zoology, although after having enumerated the thirteen orders of mammals, Dr. Ritzema Bos says he shall “deal only with those of agricultural importance,” and forthwith leaves out all references to cattle, horses, sheep and pigs. But, on the other hand, such animals as wildboars,deer,otters,goldeneagles,rightingales, herring-gulls, and grebes, having no connection with agriculture, are treated of at some length, and figures of them are given. Cuttle-fishes and star-fishes also seem out of place in a work entitled “Agricultural Zoology,” which should rather have been styled “Zoology, or the Elements of Zoology.”
Agricultural Zoology.
By Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, Lecturer in the Royal Agricultural College, Wageninen, Holland. Translated by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, B.A. With an introduction by Eleanor A. Ormerod. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1894.)
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Agricultural Zoology. Nature 50, 567–569 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050567a0
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