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GENERAL ZOOLOGY 



to America when a young man and introduced the scientific 

 methods of Europe into this country. Though he was the 

 first to work out the close relation between the fossil record 

 and the embryonic stages in the development of individual 

 animals, he would never accept his discoveries as evidences 

 of evolution, and died an opponent of Darwin. 



HUXLEY (1825-1895), though primarily a student of 

 fossil animals, did a great work along general zoological 

 lines for all English-speaking people. More than any other 



zoologist he was able to talk 

 and write in an understand- 

 able way to popular audiences. 

 His contribution to zoological 

 progress, then, was to popu- 

 larize zoology and make 

 general biological laws mat- 

 ters of common everyday 

 knowledge. 



From this brief historical 

 survey it is plain that zoology 

 has not come about all at 

 once. There has been a long 

 struggle to accumulate facts 



and to make theories to fit them. No one nation, nor 

 class of people has done the good work, but a host of 

 fair-minded energetic workers have contributed to progress. 

 One of the fine things about science is its method of work. 

 There is no secrecy nor selfishness only desire to discover 

 truth at any cost. For science men have died of fever 

 during explorations; carried on life-long struggles with 

 poverty, superstition, or other obstacles; or been shunned 

 by their fellows for advocating new ideas. But through 

 the courage and inspiration of such workers zoology has 

 gone forward; we are not yet at the end of our discov- 

 eries; new things are flashing into the light of knowledge 

 almost every day. 



FIG. 11. Huxley. (From Locy, 

 Biology and Its Makers.) 



