VII 



A LOBSTER; OR, THE STUDY OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



[1861] 



NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied 

 to the study of the properties of such natural 

 bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the 

 sciences which embody the knowledge man has 

 acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed 

 Natural Sciences, in contradistinction to other so- 

 called " physical " sciences ; and those who devote 

 themselves especially to the pursuit of such 

 sciences have been and are commonly termed 

 " Naturalists." 



Linnaeus was a naturalist in this wide sense, 

 and his " Systema Naturae " was a work upon 

 natural history, in the broadest acceptation of the 

 term ; in it, that great methodising spirit em- 

 bodied all that was known in his time of the 

 distinctive characters of minerals, animals, and 



