A Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology.

Abstract

IN the preface to this work, Prof. Huxley tells that the object of his book is to serve as a laboratory guide to those who are inclined to study the principles of Biology as a single science, and not as one divided, except for the sake of convenience, into the two “disciplines,” Zoology and Botany. To accomplish this end a certain number of readily obtainable plants and animals have been selected for minute description, in which the most important types of vegetable and animal organisation are capable of being demonstrated. With reference to each species selected, an account of its anatomy is given, which is followed by laboratory instructions as to the manipulatory detail necessary for its complete verification. The types selected include Yeast, Protococcus, the Proteus Animalcule, Bacteria, Moulds, Stoneworts, the Bracken Fern, the Bean Plant, the Bell Animalcule, the freshwater Polype and Mussel, the Crayfish and Lobster, and the Frog. As an illustration of the form in which ihe laboratory directions are given, the following quotation from a portion of the dissection of the Frog will serve as a fair example:—

A Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology.

By T. H. Huxley, assisted by H.N. Martin, B.A., D.Sc. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1875.)