ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY Opinions continued. 



" Dr Alleyne Nicholson has brought out the best Advanced Text-Book of 

 Zoology that has yet appeared. It is of small bulk, well arranged, and illus- 

 trated by a considerable number of woodcuts. A careful reader will learn 

 from it more of the principles of scientific classification, and get a better 

 notion of the anatomical and physiological considerations on which it de- 

 pends, than from any similar work we could name. ... It would be 

 extremely valuable to have this book read in the upper classes of good 

 schools. Any intelligent teacher could learn from it quite enough to offer 

 necessary explanations ; and the way in which Dr Nicholson works up his 

 facts so as to illustrate principles, places his book far in advance of ordinary 

 manuals, and would insure pupils being interested in his teaching. " The 

 Student. 



EXAMINATIONS H NATURAL HISTORY; 



BEING A PROGRESSIVE SERIES OF QUESTIONS ADAPTED TO THE AUTHOR'S 



'INTRODUCTORY AND ADVANCED TEXT-BOOKS,' AND 



'THE STUDENT'S MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY.' 



Is., Post-free. 



The Author's object in compiling this series of questions has been to 

 assist the Teacher whose limited time does not admit of so careful a pre- 

 paration of his examinations as the subject demands, and, at the same time, 

 to bring within reach of the Student the ready means of testing his own 

 proficiency in the Science. 



VI. 



INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BIOLO&Y. 



Crown 8vo, with, numerous Engravings. 5s. 



" Nowhere else, we believe, can the student, whether he be the theologian 

 anxious to learn the set of the tide and the direction of the under-current of 

 thought of modern science and philosophy, the man of letters, or the medical 

 student, or, lastly, the practitioner who is not quite ignorant of the elements 

 of comparative anatomy, but is slightly puzzled with such new terms as 

 Homogeny and Homoplasy, Abiogenesis and Bioplasm ; nowhere else, 'we 

 believe, can these meet with such clear definitions, and with such fair ex- 

 positions of rival theories, as in the pages before us." Medical Press. 



11 Admirably written and fairly illustrated, and brings within the compass 

 of 16U pages the record of investigations and discoveries scattered over so 

 many volumes. Seldom indeed do we find such subjects treated in a style 

 at once so popular and yet so minutely accurate in scientific detail. " Scots- 

 man. 



" In all the questions upon which he toiiches, Dr Nicholson shows himself 

 thoroughly master of his subject ; and when he has to deal with disputed 

 points, his moderation and fairness are no less worthy of praise than the 

 clearness and logical force with which he states his own conclusions. The 

 chapters on Abiogenesis and Origin of Species, though necessarily concise, 

 are enough to make us hope that we shall have something more on the same 

 subjects from Dr Nicholson." Standard. 



"A work that might well be taken as a text-book for the higher classes 

 in schools." Lancet. 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. 



