Illustrated Natural History Of The Animal Kingdom Being A Systematic And Popular Description Of The Habits Structure And Classification Of Animals From The Highest To The Lowest Forms With Their Relations To Agriculture Commerce Manufactures And The PDF Download

Excerpt from Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom, Vol. 1: Being a Systematic and Popular Description of the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals From the Highest to the Lowest Forms, With Their Relations to Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and the Arts Nor has this subject been less fortunate in its scientific treatment. Not to speak of Linnaeus, who wrote a century ago, and whose great name can never be overshadowed by comparison, George Cuvier, the Master Mind of his age, though by no means neglect ing the external qualities of animals, explored with a profound sagacity their internal structure. The result is well known - the new science of Comparative Anatomy, that has waked from their sleep of ages the multitudinous races of extinct animals; and furthermore, Cuvier's example has led to the study of the structure of existing races as the very basis of Scientific Zoology. And what an array of great names has since fol lowed in his track! The general effect is an expans1on of the science beyond the com prehension of any single mind, and hence different authors have devoted themselves to special branches, one to insects, nay, often to a single genus of insects another to reptiles; another to star-fishes; another to the infusoria, and so on.il Often has the whole life of a great man been devoted to the study of a single family, even of the lower forms of life and this, after all his studies, has been found to have depths vet unsounded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.