DE. CAEPENTEE’S ZOOLOGY. 
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Lady Franklin and her friends, to nsnrp the place which ought properly 
to be filled at the cost of the nation; and to state that, in our opinion, 
a day of reckoning must arrive, when the country at large will demand 
of its Government a statement of the reasons which have induced them 
to abandon the Arctic search, at the very moment when it appeared most 
certain of success. 
Zoology : being a Systematic Account of the Geneeal Steuctuee, 
Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the Peincipal Families of the 
Animal Kingdom, as well as of the Chief Foems of Fossil Re¬ 
mains. By W. B. Carpenter, M. D., F. R. S., &c. A Hew Edition, 
thoroughly revised by W. S. Dallas, F. L. S. London: Henry G. 
Bohn, York-street, Covent Garden. 1857. Two Yols. Yol. I. 
To Dr. Carpenter must, we think, in fairness he assigned the honour of 
having presented the student with a clearer and more comprehensive 
statement of the leading principles of zoological science than is to he 
found in the writings of any other living British naturalist. The care and 
industry with which he has collected, from a variety of sources, the nu¬ 
merous facts and opinions which have been incorporated in his works; 
the discrimination which he has shown in drawing his own conclusions, 
and performing the work of condensation—a task the difficulty of which 
can he appreciated only by those who have attempted it—are well cal¬ 
culated to save the student much subsequent (and, perhaps, fruitless) 
labourwhile the extensive acquaintance with the truths of science 
which is manifested in almost every page, together with the pleasing and 
perspicuous style in which all his information is conveyed, combine to 
render him at once both a competent and agreeable instructor. 
The truth of these remarks must he evident to those who are familiar 
with the physiological writings of Dr. Carpenter, and we would refer 
our readers to the last edition of his “ Principles of Comparative Phy¬ 
siology” as an instance of a work affording an almost exact representa¬ 
tion of the state of physiological knowledge at the time of his publica¬ 
tion. 
Hot so well known as the preceding, the “ Zoology” of Dr. Carpen¬ 
ter has, nevertheless, been recognised among a numerous class of students 
as one of the most useful and complete of the various manuals on the 
subject of which it treats. Published, however, some twelve years since, 
it may readily he supposed that it had fallen considerably below the pre¬ 
sent state of science, and stood much in need of revision. The numerous 
avocations of Dr. Carpenter prevented him from executing a task which 
he was obviously the fittest person to perform ; and accordingly, with his 
consent, the preparation of a new edition was intrusted by the publishers 
to Mr. Dallas. Mr. Dallas is already known to the public as the author 
of a work of a somewhat similar kind, which we noticed in a preceding 
Humber (vide “ Hatural History Review,” July, 1856). 
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