CURIOSITIES 



OF 



ANIMAL LIFE. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTEREST OF THE SCIENCE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



THAT the science of Natural History is invested 

 with great interest, is a fact universally admitted. 

 Objections to its study have sometimes arisen from 

 the neglect of naturalists to ascribe all its wonders 

 to the great First Cause. It is hoped that no such 

 charge will be alleged against the present volume. 

 Its aim is to illustrate the power, wisdom, and good- 

 ness of our Heavenly Father ; and to give to God 

 the honour due to his name. . 



It may be well to premise, that the attention of 

 the reader will be directed successively to the 

 Microscope, with its recent improvements, so 

 important an auxiliary to diligent and careful in- 

 vestigation ; to Life, and its Phenomena ; to the 

 Distinction between Animals and Vegetables ; and 

 then, from the simplest forms of organic existence, 

 to the Wheel Animalcules. 



