3IO AN INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



Seashore, etc., may be recommended for the younger 

 reader, and Miss Buckley's charming books. Life and 

 her Children (Stanford, 1880; 6s.) and Winners in 

 Life's Race ; while for the adult reader. Sir John. 

 Lubbock's book on Ants {Ants, Bees and Wasps : 

 International Science Series; Kegan Paul, 5s.), and 

 Darwin's book about Earthworms, will give an insight 

 into the best ways of studying animals. 



Then study some of Darwin's books; Plants and 

 Animals under Domestication is the one most suitable 

 to begin with, for the simple reason that the types 

 described in it are familiar to everybody, and it 

 therefore requires no special zoological knowledge 

 to understand the reasoning presented. After that, 

 the Origin of Species should be read. Dr. Andrew 

 Wilson's interesting popular work. Chapters on Evolu- 

 tion, although published some time ago, may be read 

 with advantage by those who find the Origin of Species 

 too difficult to understand at first reading. Next, 

 it will be well to go through all these books again, 

 with the aid of Glaus and Sedgwick's Text-hook of 

 Zoology, looking up in the latter the structure and 

 place in classification of the chief animal types men- 

 tioned, so as to work the knowledge of theory in with 

 the knowledge of systematic Zoology. In this book, 

 too, will be found some discussion of Darwin's views. 

 This work should be used as a book of reference by 

 the elementary student, systematic study of it being 

 a possibility only for those who have made consider- 

 able progress in the study of Zoology. 



