A MANUAL 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



NATURAL HISTORY relates to all objects upon the earth, whether 

 Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral. 



Kingdoms. Natural objects are divided into three kingdoms. 

 The first includes animals, and is called the Animal Kingdom; the 

 second includes plants, and is called the Vegetable Kingdom ; lastly, 

 we place in the Mineral Kingdom all objects which are neither 

 animals nor plants, that is, those which have no life stones, 

 rocks, crystals, liquids such as the water we drink, and gases 

 such as the air we breathe. 



Animals have a mouth with which they eat their appropriate 

 food. They can also run, fly, swim, or walk. If we approach 

 them, or attempt to seize and annoy them, they try to escape, 

 or show that they feel pain. Even the oyster will forcibly close 

 itself and resist if we try to open it, and we therefore say that 

 it feels. 



Plants also take nourishment, but in a different way from 



