MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' 



PUBLICATIONS. 



Lately published, 



TEXT-BOOK OP ZOOLOGY, 



FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. 



By H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, 



M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Lecturer on Natural History, and Vice- 

 President of the Geological Society of Edinburgh, &c. 



In Crown Octavo, with numerous Engravings, 6s. 



EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS. 



Lancet. 



If natural history, he says, is to be taught in schools, with any satisfac- 

 tion to the teacher or any profit to the learner, it must be taught as systema- 

 tically as mathematics and Greek have been taught for many generations. 

 The author's text-book, regarded from this point of view, is a decided suc- 

 cess ; it is just what was wanted. The subject has been treated in a scientific 

 spirit, but at the same time so clearly and so well as to be quite within the 

 comprehension of any young student who will bring ordinary attention to his 

 task. 



Daily Review. 



His thorough acquaintance with natural history gives him a most won- 

 derful power of condensing and compressing its most complicated principles, 

 its most perplexing arrangements and descriptions, into such small space that 

 not only is an immense deal of the student's time saved in his being able to 

 comprehend almost at a glance what in old manuals it would take a good many 

 glances to comprehend, but his memory is greatly relieved from the strain of 

 remembering the long, tedious screeds of dry scientific descriptions of which 



the older manuals are not altogether free It is about the best of 



the new text-books we know of ; and as the older text-books are not of much 

 use now, we hope Dr Nicholson's work will be found in the library of every 

 student of medicine and science. 



Nonconformist. 



This is an excellent treatise for its purpose. Dr Nicholson's style is singu- 

 larly intelligent ; he conveys much information in a small space, and is espe- 

 cially clear in his explanations of the various zoological classes and their 

 characteristics. The introductory chapter is a model of lucid writing on a 



difficult point, the distinctions between plants and animals We 



have only to add that Christian teachers and the adherents of a spiritual 

 philosophy may safely put this book into the hands of their pupils. There 

 is nothing theological in the book, but on the other hand there is nothing 

 anti-theological. 



Manchester Examiner. 



We welcome this little book all the more because it aims not only at con- 

 veying sound elementary knowledge, but is intended, in addition, to assist in 

 making the study of zoology a valuable instrument in developing and training 

 the mental faculties. 



