Natural history of animals

Preface

This little volume contains a brief account of the Animal Kingdom, and it is hoped that it may aid parents and teachers in interesting the young in the delightful and important study of Natural History. As indicated on the title page, it serves the purpose of a key to the Natural History Tablets, but is also complete in itself without the Tablets.

It is proper to add that the engravings are the same, with few exceptions, as those in Tenney's " Manual of Zoology," and that those of the Mammals are mainly from Schinz, Audubon and Bachman, and Richardson ; of the Birds, mainly from Audubon and Wilson ; of the Reptiles and Batrachians, mainly from Holbrook ; of the Fishes, from Storer, Holbrook, DeKay, and from nature ; of the Insects, from Harris, Emmons, Say, Sanborn, and from nature ; of the Crustaceans, mainly from nature and Reports ; of the Mollusks, from Binney, Woodward, Gould, Lea, Conrad,

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and from nature ; of the Echinoderms, from nature, Agassiz, and Muller; of the Acalephs, from Agassiz; of the Polyps, from Dana, Milne-Edwards, Verrill, and from nature ; and of the Protozoans, mainly from Ehrenberg and Huxley.

Both this volume and the " Elements of Zoology" already announced by Messrs. Scribner and Co., and which will combine the study of the Anatomy and Physiology of Animals with that of Descriptive Zoology, are intended to precede the Manual mentioned above.

In the present edition a few changes have been made, as the volume is no longer to be used in connection with the Natural History Tablets.