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Excerpt from Illustrations of Zoology: Invertebrates and Vertebrates This book is a companion to a course of Systematic Zoology. The need of such a book has become obvious to us from some years of teaching. The study of class-types, now a part of every systematic course, is already well provided for by Professor rolleston's Forms of Animal Life, and the many books that have modelled themselves upon it. The Zoological Laboratory, too, is not without its many and admirable text-books. There is room, however, and need for a form of book such as we offer to the public in these Illustrations of Zoology. In it the student will find illustrated, by Diagram or Drawing, the structure of forms selected from all the great Classes of Vertebrates and Invertebrates, and the illustrations arranged in systematic order. Our design is to help the student of Comparative Anatomy in the most important and the most difficult part of a systematic Course of Lectures. In dealing with the Vertebrates, we could have wished to illustrate types of all the Orders as well as of the Classes, but to have done this would have made the book larger and more expensive without making it proportionally more useful. Besides, the general text-books, as a rule, give with a fair degree of fulness the chief features of the Vertebrate Orders. 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.