Class Book Of Zoology Designed To Afford To Pupils In Common Schools And Academics A Knowledge Of Animal Kingdom By B Jaeger

Author : Glenn W. Herrick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331127291
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book A Text-Book in General Zoölogy written by Glenn W. Herrick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text-Book in General Zoölogy The arrangement, presentation, and selection of the subject-matter in the present text-book have been determined by the experience gained from the labors of ten years in the class room with the grade of students for whom this work is intended. In fact, the text is simply a more orderly discussion of the same subjects in the same sequence that have been presented for ten years to successive classes in elementary zoology. The author, in his work with these students, has attempted to interpret, with much thought and care, the zoological demands of such students according to their average receptivities and practical needs rather than by any preconceived ideas of what constitutes a knowledge of zoology. The aim has been to create an interest in nature, beget an acquaintance with the lives, habits, and activities of animals, train the powers of observation, quicken the judgment, widen the horizon of environment, augment the capabilities for independent thinking, and inculcate an unswerving regard for the truth. The instruction that a potential citizen receives in zoölogy must give more than a mere acquaintance with animals. If the study of this science does not accomplish the objects enumerated in the foregoing paragraph, it loses its highest value as an educational subject in the curricula of the common schools. That the study of zoology may fulfill its function as a subject of mental discipline and, at the same time, give to that large majority of pupils who become "ordinary citizens" an acquaintance with animals, the author has been led, from his experience in teaching, to include in a zoological course a goodly amount of natural history and comparative anatomy, a large share of animal ecology, economic zoology and physiology, a moderate amount of classification, embryology, and paleontology, something of the history of zoology, and, through all, a persistent presentation of the relationships of animals and of the manner in which they have been evolved. To present the foregoing divisions of the subject-matter of zoology in their proper relations and proportions is indeed a difficult task, and one which, at best, is open to criticism; but it is hoped that the pupils who follow the course here laid down will gain an acquaintance with animals and acquire an interest in them, and, at the same time, receive that mental discipline which they would derive from the pursuit of other studies. 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.