A Manual of Zoology

Abstract

A BOOK such as this aims at being was wanted—one which should give a little more of systematic detail than is to be found in Professor Huxley's “Outlines” or Professor Rolleston's introductory chapters of his “Forms.” It required, however, a man of considerable knowledge of the subject to write such a book worthily, and we doubt whether Dr. Nicholson, though he deserves credit for enterprise, was quite the man to undertake it. He excuses himself for shortcomings in plan and execution in his preface, on the score of leading a busy life. Now is it, we would ask, for men who lead lives devoted to other objects than the pursuit of zoology, to bring out educational works on that branch of science?

A Manual of Zoology.

By H. A. Nicholson. Vol. I. Invertebrate Animals. (Blackwood and Sons.)