Researches in zoology, illustrative of the structure, habits and economy of animals

Preface

As frequent inquiries have been recently made for my ‘ Researches in Zoology,’ which were published collectively in the year 1834, and have long been out of print, I have been induced to offer to the public a second edition of the work, which will be found to comprise such additions and emendations as subsequent investigations have enabled me to effect.

The descriptions of British Spiders given in the first edition of the * Researches ’ are here omitted, as they are all included in a ‘ History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland ’ issued by the Ray Society, to which work I refer those zoologists who take an interest in that department of our native Fauna.

1 may remark that the materials of which the present volume is composed have been collected, for

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the most part, during intervals of relaxation from more important avocations ; and it is hoped that they may be found to contain information on various subjects interesting to the general reader and to the natural philosopher.

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