Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients

Abstract

THIS interesting volume consists of a series of short lectures treating of most of the animals known to the early inhabitants of Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Greece, and Rome, from the oldest historic period down to about the middle of the third century of the Christian era. Referring to his sources of information the author expresses his acknowledgments to the Biblical and Assyrian records and the classical writers of Greece and Rome. Alluding to Aristotle's work, “The History of Animals,” he quote's Lewes's well-known remarks thereon, which, while he will not fully endorse, he yet on the whole agrees with.

Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients.

By the Rev. W. Houghton Illustrated. (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1880.)