APPENDIX IV 



GUIDE TO BIOLOGICAL READING 



This is merely a representative selection of useful books, but many 

 of the larger treatises on our list, e.g. Hartmann's, have good Bibliog- 

 raphies. Some of the simpler books are marked with an asterisk. 



INTRODUCTIONS 



The idea of beginning a new study with a Primer or short Intro- 

 duction is natural, but it is not always very effective. It takes a genius 

 to write a worthy introduction to a science; some are too elementary, 

 and others are too like pemmican. Their restricted size precludes the 

 use of picturesque details on which the mind of a beginner naturally 

 fastens. It is usually better to begin more indirectly, with the biography 

 of some great biologist, or with a naturalist's travels, or with out-of- 

 door sketches — comparable to taking a walk in the country with a 

 friendly biologist. 



SOME SMALL INTRODUCTORY BOOKS 



*F. W. Gamble, The Animal World. Home University Library. 

 R. LuLHAM, Introduction to Zoology. 191 3. 

 J. G. Needham, General Biology. Ithaca, 1910. 

 T. Jeffery Parker, Elementary Biology. 1891. 



INDIRECT INTRODUCTIONS 



C. F. Hodge, Nature-Study and Life. Boston, 1902. 



Julian S. Huxley, Essays of a Biologist. 1923. 

 Essays in Popular Science. 1926. 



O. Latter, Natural History of Common Animals. Cambridge, 1904. 



M. I. Newbigin, Life by the Seashore. 

 ♦Patrick Geddes, Chapters in Modern Botany. 



*W. J. P. Burton, Some Secrets of Nature: Short Studies in Field 

 and Wood. 1913. 



J. Arthur Thomson, Editor, Outline of Science. 3 vols. 1922. 



Wells, Huxley, and Wells, The Science of Life. 1929. 



INTRODUCTIONS CENTRED IN ONE ANIMAL OR PLANT 



*T. H. Huxley, The Crayfish, an Introduction to the Study of Zoology. 

 1880. Unsurpassed. 



W. H. Flower, The Horse. 1891. 



A. MiLNEs Marshal, The Frog, nth edition by F. W. Gamble. 1914. 



St. George Mivart, The Frog. 1874. 

 ♦Marshall Ward, The Oak Tree. 



E. E. Austen, The House-Fly. 



