﻿FIRST BOOK 



OF 



ZOOLOGY. 



BY 



EDWARD S. MORSE, Ph. D., M. A. 



" As for your pretty little seed-cups, or vases, they are a sweet confirmation of the pleasure 

 Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of form to most of her works, wherever you 

 and them. How poor and bungling are all the imitations of art ! When I have the pleasure 

 of seeing you next we will sit down— nay, kneel down if you will— and admire these things." 

 — [Hogaeth in a Letter to Ellis. 



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