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Ian Company, 19(X). 412 pages; 306 illustrations, many of them 

 being photographs from life. Most readable accounts of the rela- 

 tionships of various forms, and also of their habits and anatomy. 

 A. F. Arnold : The Sea-Beach at Ebb-Tide; Century Company, 



1901. 490 pages; 85 plates and numerous figures, most of which 

 are taken from previous publications. A good description of each 

 species, and interesting chapters upon the relationships of each 

 great group of the invertebrates. 



A. E. Verrill and S. I. Smith : Report upon the Invertebrate 

 Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters. Report of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, 1871-2, 478 pages, 38 plates, 287 figures. 

 Excellent accounts of habits and distribution, together with clear 

 outline drawings of some of the animals. 



G. B. Goode, etc.: The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the 

 United States. U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. Two vols., 895 pages, 

 277 plates. Valuable to fishermen and collectors. 



Good general textbooks upon zoology, eml^ryology and anat- 

 omy for those who have had the benefit of an elementary course in 

 zoology : 



Richard Hertwig: A Manual of Zoology ; Henry Holt & Co. 



1902. Translated by J. S. Kingsley. Korschelt and Heider, 

 Textbook of Embryology of Invertebrates, Macmillan Company, 

 4 volumes, 1895-1900. Arnold Lang: Textbook of Comparative 

 Anatomy, Macmillan, 1891-'96, 2 volumes. 



Every student of zoology should read Darwin's "Origin of 

 Species." This work is to the natural sciences what Newton's "Prin- 

 cipia " is to the physical and mathematical sciences. But it is more 

 than an epoch making work, throwing a flood of brilliant liglit upon 

 the dark mysteries of life. Its greatest inspiration to us comes 

 because it is the record of one, who, after years of studious labor, 

 performed under conditions of extreme distress which only love of 

 truth could conquer, came into a realm of thought wherein he saw 

 darkly and imperfectly, what we were, what our race had been, and 

 what our possibilities. His characteristics were simplicity, honesty, 

 and courageous thoroughness; fearlessly follow^ing the lead of truth 

 far toward the limit of human understanding. 



