Introduction to the study of biology / by H. Alleyne Nicholson.

Date:
1872
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    LATELY PUBLISHED. I. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. A MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY, FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY, AND GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS. By henry ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D., D.Sc, M.A., Ph.D., F.R S.E., F.G.S., &c. ; Professor of Natural History and Botany in University College, Toronto ; formerly Lecturer on Natural History in the Medical School of Edinburgh, &c. Crown 8vo, pp. 673, with 243 Engravings on Wood, 12s. 6d. We fail to recognise in any previous zoological author the jieculiar art, which Dr Nicholson exhibits, of showing all sides of the question, while apparently in no case obtruding his own individual opinions. This naturally places the present work on a far higher level than that possessed by its ]>redecessors. . . . It is the best manual of zoology yet published, not merely in England but in Europe.—Pall Mall Gazette.. The best handbook for students that we at present possess.—Fesimmsier Review. II. By the Same Author, TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. Crown 8vo, pp. 340, with 158 Engravings on Wood, 6s. It is just such a book as a boy may find time to thoroughly master; a stepping- stone, as it were, to larger treatises on the same subject, and in this way will prove both acceptable and useful.—Examiner. This capital introduction to natural history is illustrated and well got up in every way, a credit alike to author and publisher. We should be glad to see it generally used in schools.—Medical Press. We can very cordially recommend the work, and feel sure that an earnest teacher, with the help of a microscope to illustrate the earlier sections of the book, with a few specimens for class-demonstration, and with a full belief in the power of natural history to interest intelligent observers, cannot fail to awaken mind, and at the same time to train his pupils to habits of correct and profitable observa- tion.—Quarterly Journal of Education. ' III. By the Same Author, INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY, FOR THE USE OF JUNIOR CLASSES. With 127 Engravings, 3s. 6d. The book is well suited to become the text-book for schools, and contains nothing that an ordinary schoolboy of thirteen or fourteen could not understand. We hail such a work as tending to the introduction of natural-history teaching in schools, a subject which has hitherto been neglected, owing greatly to the want of such text-books as the one before ns.—Quarterly Journal of Science.