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THIS neatly printed and well illustrated volume forms one of the American Science Series, the principal object of which is to supply the lack, in some subjects very great, of authoritative books whose principles are, so far as practicable, illustrated by familiar American facts, while they should at the same time at least not contradict the very latest generalisations of science. Prof. Packard's “Zoology”is one of the first published of the series; it is designed to be used quite as much in the laboratory or with specimens in hand as in the class-room. It is an expansion of a course of lectures for college students, though prepared to meet the wants of the general reader. Most of the anatomical descriptions and drawings have been made expressly for this book, and special portions have had the benefit of being supervised by Professors Hyatt, Gill, Cope, and Dr. E. Coues; the illustrations are to a large extent original, though some of them have, appeared before in the pages of the American Naturalist, or in Dr. Coues's “Key to the Birds of North America.”
Zoology for Students and General Readers.
By A. S. Packard Jun., Professor of Zoology and Geology in Brown University. With numerous Illustrations. (New York: Henry Holt and Co. London: Trübner and Co., 1879.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 21, 465–466 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021465a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021465a0