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Excerpt from First Lessons in Zoology This book, an introduction to the study of animals and their life, is intended for use in schools which do not care to undertake to dissect a series of types or examples. In this book the life-history and habits of familiar animals, rather than their structure and classification, are made the basis for a beginning study of zoology. But this is not a reading book, or nature-study story book. It is a guide and outline for constant, specific personal work in observation, and answering questions by means of this observation, on the part of the pupils, and only such telling of facts is included as seems necessary to make significant and coherent and related the self-made discoveries of the pupils. The actual method of use of the book will be obvious to any teacher into whose hands it may fall. The succession of chapters is one that seems natural and useful to the author; for any teacher it will be, of course, a simple matter to modify and re-arrange the course of work as outlined. In fact the opportunities for obtaining material for study offered by the situation of the school, as, for example, whether on the seashore or in the interior near a lake or river, or on the dry plains, and the relation of the school terms to the seasons of the year, and other special and varying conditions, will dictate in large measure the teacher's actual procedure. The numbered parts of the book indicate the classification of the study of animals into particular phases or kinds of study rather than a definite linear arrangement or sequence of this study. The lessons or subjects of Part IV, for example, should be interpolated wherever the teacher finds fittest opportunity in connection with the study of special animals or groups of animals. Chapters VI, VII, and VIII of Part II have to do with that part of the study of animals which, as usually treated, demands the facilities of equipped laboratories. 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.