TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



Man's Relation to Other Animals i 



Purpose of Zoological Study I 



Morphology 2 



Comparative Anatomy 3 



Ontogeny 4 



Physiology 4 



Biology 5 



Paleontology 5 



HISTORY OF ZOOLOGY 7 



Methods of Zoological Study 7 



Aristotle 7 



Development of Systematic Zoology g 



Pliny 9 



Zoology of the Middle Ages 9 



. Wotton 10 



Linnaeus 10 



Improvements Introduced into Zoological Nomenclature by 



Linnaeus n 



Influence of the Linnean System 12 



Development of Morphology 13 



Anatomists of Classic Antiquity 13 



of the Middle Ages 14 



Vesal 14 



Beginning of Zootomy 14 



The Dawn of Independent Observation 15 



Period of Comparative Anatomy 16 



Correlation of Parts 16 



Homology and Analogy 16 



Cuvier 17 



Type Theory i" 



Comparative Embryology (Evolution vs. Epigenesis) . . 19 



Von Baer 20 



Cell Theory 2O 



Reform of the System 21 



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