THE TERM ‘ ZOOLOGICAL.’ 13 
“ What, Uncle,” cried Jane, ‘* was the 
word Zoological made only three or four 
years ago? Why, la! I am twice as old as 
Zoological. Who would have thought it !” 
““ Not twice as old as Zoological, little 
Jane; but, at least, twice as old as the fami- 
liarity of any part of the English public, 
and especially of the London, with the use and 
meaning of the term. People could always 
talk about Natural History, and about the 
History of Animals, but they did not know 
the ‘ Science of Animals,’ or the ‘ Science or 
Knowledge of Animated Nature,’ by the fine 
name of Zoology, a term compounded from 
the Greek. 
** Oh, ‘ Zoology’ is Greek !” cried George ; 
“and, now, I remember that f#ov is the Greek 
word for ‘an animal :’ but what is the mean- 
ing of logy?” . 
‘* In strictness,” said Mr. Dartmouth, 
“‘ toy does not particularly signify an ani- 
mal, nor even a living being, but a being of 
any kind whatever. But, in this instance at 
least, the word is received as signifying an 
animal; and logy, or logia, is from the Greek 
Aoyos, a § word,’ ‘speech, ’or ‘discourse.’ Now, 
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