An Elementary Manual Of Zoology Designed For The Use Of Forest Officers In India

Author : E. C. Cotes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330288856
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book An Elementary Manual of Zoology Designed for the Use of Forest Officers in India written by E. C. Cotes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary Manual of Zoology Designed for the Use of Forest Officers in India: Prepared for the Forest Department of India The following work has been drawn up for the Forest Department of the Government of India. It is designed to meet a want which has been felt in the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun, for a short elementary manual to cover the zoological teaching of that institution. Slight as it is, the difficulties which have had to be encountered in its preparation will be readily appreciated by those who have attempted to find their way through the fragmentary literature upon which dependence has still to be placed in studying many of the groups of Indian animals. The Vertebrata of India, it is true, have been systematically described; indeed the series of volumes which are being prepared under the able editorship of Mr. W. T. Blanford will leave, when completed, little to be desired in this section. Unfortunately the Vertebrata form numerically but a small group when compared with the myriad hosts of insects and other lowly creatures which make up the bulk of the animal species occurring in India. In this larger field students have been few and far between, and although much excellent work of a more or less isolated nature has been done, the subject is so vast and the observations generally have been so little systematized that, except in a few stray orders and families, they have hitherto been almost entirely unavailable for teaching purposes. None of the general text-books of the day again deal in sufficient detail with the particular animals with which the Indian Forest Officer is concerned, to be anything like complete guides in themselves, though they are invaluable for purposes of reference. In putting together his notes therefore, the writer has had to cull information from very numerous and widely different sources. 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.