A SUBJECT OF GENERAL EDUCATION 7 



science botany, and it has been more intimately con- 

 cerned than any other subject in expanding our ideas 

 of the human body in its relation to nature. 



Owing to the character of the questions involved 

 and to its broad scope, the foremost claim of zoology 

 to attention is as a subject of general education. 

 Education to-day without some knowledge of the 

 phenomena of nature is inadequate. Some training 

 in the scientific method of observation, such as is 

 supplied by zoology, is an indispensable part of the 

 mental equipment of the liberally educated. 



The results of zoological investigation have prac- 

 tical bearing in sanitary science, hi the conservation 

 of useful animals, for the agriculturist, the breeder 

 and the economic zoologist. While supplying train- 

 ing and important knowledge of the animal life 

 referred to, the subject affords opportunity for 

 diversion hi the study of birds, marine forms and 

 insects. 



Besides its position in general education zoology is 

 basal to the study of medicine. Not only have 

 zoological discoveries enriched medicine, but, further- 

 more, they have supplied the foundations upon 

 which experimental medicine has been built. Zoology 

 is one of the important pre-clinical subjects, and all 



