INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY, 



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" Tliese are thy glorious works, Parent of good — 

 Almighty! Thine tliis universal frame, 

 Thus wondrous fair : Thyself how wondrous then, 

 Unspeakable! who sit'st above the heavens — 

 To us invisible, or dimly seen 

 In these tliy lowest works ; yet these declare 

 Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.'' — Miltox 



The word " Zoology" is derived from two Greek words, and 

 signifies a knowledge of animals. The science which teaches 

 the structure, habits, and classification of animals is Zoology: 

 the person by whom such knowledge has been acquired is a 

 Zoologist. 



When we regard man as the head of the animal creation, 

 and trace the various gradations of structure and intelligence 

 between him and some of the humblest organized tribes of 

 being; or when we think of the countless multitudes of 

 animals scattered over the earth, and diflused throughout its 

 waters, it might seem that any attempt to form them into 

 groups, to distinguish the several species, and bestow on them 

 appropriate names, would be altogether unavailuig. 



But what the labour of an individual would be insufficiqnt 



to effect, the combined exertions of many are, in the course of 



time, able to accomplish; and as man possesses the power 



of transmitting by wTiting the knowledge he has acquired. 



■*'e are enabled to benefit by the toil and exertion of those 

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