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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Zoology This little book is a. Kind of guide-book for readers who are about to begin the study of Zoology. It aims at supplying a simple outline sketch of the animal kingdom, so as to enable the reader to map in, as it were, his own particular field of study in its right place in the general scheme of zoological know ledge. It is also intended to guide the reader to the use of standard works. A story has been told of a. Working man who saved up money enough to buy an expensive work on natural history, and of his disappointment, when he found that much of it was obsolete and the whole of it old-fashioned. It is to prevent disappointments of this sort that this little book is intended. I have given a. List of text-books and other literature of the subject, which, though far from exhaustive, practically includes everything that can be useful to the readers for whom I have written, and very likely a great deal. More. 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.