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INTRODTTCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



observant faculties, the habits of arrangement which it requires, 

 the gencrahzations to which it leads, the inexhaustible pleasures 

 which it aftbrds, and the devotional feelings with which it is 

 associated. We would now wish the reader to regard it in a 

 new light, as affording for the reasoning powers a field for their 

 exertion not less beneficial than other departments of science, 



Fig. 313.— Mtlodon. 



whose claim to be admitted into our schools and colleeres have 

 long since been recognized. As an instance of inductive 

 reasoning, we now bring forward Professor Owen's admirable 

 meiiioir on the Mjdodon. 



