CONTENT 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. ZOOLOGY AS A SUBJECT OF GENERAL EDUCATION OUTLINE 



OF THE PROGRAM i 



II. THE OUTSTANDING BIOLOGICAL ADVANCES OF THE NINE- 

 TEENTH CENTURY 10 



The Discovery of Protoplasm and its Bearing on Bio- 

 logical Progress 1 1 



The Formulation of the Cell-Theory 16 



Establishment of the Doctrine of Organic Evolution ... 22 



III. THE OUTSTANDING BIOLOGICAL ADVANCES CONTINUED .... 24 



The Rise of Bacteriology and the Demonstration of the 



Germ-Theory of Disease 25 



The Experimental Study of Heredity 34 



IV. ZOOLOGY EMERGES 43 



V. LINN^US AND His INFLUENCE 52 



VI. CUVIER AND STRUCTURAL ZOOLOGY 62 



VII. THE RISE OF EMBRYOLOGY 70 



VIII. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AS A DIVISION OF ZOOLOGY 77 



IX. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 84 



X. ZOOLOGY OF FOSSIL REMAINS 95 



XI. MAIN PATHWAYS AND RECENT TENDENCIES OF ZOOLOGY . . . 106 

 XII. A CHAPTER ON INSECTS 125 



XIII. THEORIES OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION 143 



XIV. SOME MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS 165 



Painless Surgery 165 



Jenner and Vaccination 170 



XV. THE TEN FOREMOST MEN OF ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY NA- 

 TIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGICAL PROGRESS 

 THE RANK OF DIFFERENT NATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL 



PROGRESS 174 



XVI. SOME USEFUL BOOKS A SELECTED READING-LIST WITH 

 BRIEF COMMENTS ON THE RELATIVE MERITS OF BOOKS 

 AND PERIODICAL ARTICLES ON ZOOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. 188 



INDEX 209 



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