3i8 AN INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



little time over the misapplied learning which has 

 been mixed up with zoological nomenclature. A 

 classical education is not necessary for this purpose ; a 

 knowledge of the Greek alphabet as well as of our 

 own, with industry enough to use a dictionary, will 

 be sufficient in order to ascertain the meaning of the 

 vast majority of scientific names. Two golden rules, 

 if followed, will do the utmost that can be done to 

 make the reader independent of any teaching but his 

 own. The first is, never pass a word without making 

 sure that you know its meaning and pronunciation. 

 The second is, never read a description of any animal 

 which you have not hitherto seen, without making a 

 note, either in your mind or in your note-book, that 

 you must search, in field or museum, or illustrated 

 atlas, till you find the thing named, and that then you 

 must compare it with what you have read about it. 



The student whose time or money is limited, should 

 look over the other books I have named, in some library, 

 and buy for home use Parker's Elementary Biology, and 

 Jeffrey Bell's Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, 

 which two volumes will afford him the utmost possible 

 amount of real knowledge in the smallest possible 

 space. But those who already have some general 

 knowledge of Zoology, derived from popular literature 

 or from collecting, will find Glaus' Text-Book of Zoology 

 the most useful, because it names a large number of 

 genera, and thus enables the student who already 

 knows a number of kinds by sight and by name to fit 

 them into their right places in systematic Zoology. 



