Download or read book Types of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by St. George Mivart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Types of Animal Life Most readers are probably, by this time, not a little tired of Darwinian controversy; and certainly we have no intention of dealing with it here. That would lead us into psychology and metaphysics, while our present purpose is to deal only with what appear to us to be the most interesting facts which concern their natural history, and not to analyse the phenomena of the ape mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal Life Classic Reprint written by F. W. Gamble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Life 4. Birds-their dight - Adaptation of the body Hugs - Feathers Methods of gliding and active flight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Forms of Animal Life written by George Rolleston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy With Descriptions of Selected Types When Professor Rolleston went abroad he put me in possession of his plans for the rest of the work, handed his papers to me, and expressed a hope that, if he were disabled from completing the new edition, I might be the person to do it in his stead. It is almost needless for me to add that in fulfilling this sacred trust I have endeavoured to carry out his wishes, which were mainly three: (i) to enlarge the descriptions of the Preparations and accounts of the various classes of animals, and bring them to the standard of contemporary knowledge; (2) to add to each class or group a brief classification; and (3) to give as full a bibliography as space would permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Phases of Animal Life Past and Present Classic Reprint written by Richard Lydekker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present The following Essays are, by the kind permission of the Editor, reproduced from knowledge with some emendations, and a few additional illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Marvels of the Animal World Classic Reprint written by W. S. Berridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marvels of the Animal World N the following pages it has been the aim of the author to bring before the reader's notice the curious habits, varied dispositions, and peculiar characteristics of different types of animal life. With that end in view, he has surveyed the members of the Animal Kingdom from numerous aspects, and incorporated under various chapter headings a number of facts bearing upon the lives and ways of beasts, birds, reptiles, fish and insects. The service of the camera has been enlisted to bring more clearly before the eyes of the reader some of the marvels of the animal world which have been briefly referred to in the letterpress, and it is hoped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by Fred Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World of Animal Life In this opening chapter we shall learn something about the Classification Of Animals; or, in other words, about the way in which animals are arranged by men of science. Now, perhaps you will think that this is a very dull and dry subject, and that it cannot be Of interest to those who know nothing about it. But in reality it is not dull at all. Indeed, it is almost as interesting to find out how different animals are related to one another, as it is to learn about their ways and habits; for in doing so we are led to examine their bodily frames, and to notice how wonderfully every part is suited to the life which the animals have to lead. Some of us may think that it cannot be necessary to know anything about this subject, and that anyone who is really fond of animals can study them quite well, without understanding their natural arrangement. But this, as we shall presently see, is a great mistake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Popular Natural History Vol 1 written by J. S. Kingsley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Natural History, Vol. 1: A Description of Animal Life, From the Lowest Forms Up to Man IT has been the endeavor, in the preparation of these volumes, to present a popular account of Animal Life; but while scientific techni calities have been carefully kept in the background, it is hoped that scientific accuracy has not been sacrificed in the operation. To some there may appear an inequality in treatment. This, in part at least, has been intentional. Insects and Birds have already an enormous popular literature, while the other forms have been more or less neg lected. Believing that these other animals have their points Of interest and claims upon our attention, they have been given a prominence poissibly greater than they deserve. Another feature in these pages has been the collection of bits of unnatural history from the pages of the older writers. These have of course no place in our present science, but they belong to the history of zoology, and as such, have no small value, aside from their interest as scientific curiosities. It is hardly necessary to call attention to the fact that there is another Side to the animal kingdom which is fully as interesting and attractive as that presented here. In the last twenty years zoology has taken a new departure and a new lease of life. NO longer are zoologists content with watching the habits of well-known animals, and imposing long Latin names on those which are new. Museums are no longer necessary for the better class of work. To-day the student is trying to solve deeper problems. He is finding out how all animals grow from the egg to the adult condition; he is tracing resemblances, rather than difierences, and showmg the. Essential unity of all life, however great the apparent differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Types of Animal Life written by Mivart St. George and published by Obscure Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1893. Author: St. George Mivart, F.R.S. Language: English Keywords: Pure Science / Natural History / Zoology Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Animal Life by the Sea Shore Classic Reprint written by George Albert Boulenger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Life by the Sea-Shore This little book is intended to serve as a manual for the use of the amateur naturalist at the seaside, and the authors have aimed at brevity in their accounts of the various groups, in View of the class of readers for whom they are intended. Far from attempting anything in the way of an exhaustive or strictly scientific manual, they have only tried to provide those untrained in zoology with a means of identifying the principal of the innumerable forms of animal life which are likely to attract their attention when on the beach, or, better, on the rocks and beds of weeds uncovered by the great ebb tides which afford such grand opportunities in the western parts of the English Channel; and also of acquiring some notions concerning the often puzzling organs displayed by these creatures, their functions, as well as some of the most salient facts of their life-histories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Marvels of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by Charles Frederick Holder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marvels of Animal Life Many of the observations chronicled in the following pages were made during a long residence upon a coral reef or atoll, some while swimming under water along the bristling coral banks that formed a characteristic feature of our tropical home, and others are the memories of many practical collecting tours in various localities in Search of Specimens valued by the lover of nature. The chapters relate to widely different subjects; the strange forms of animal life found in various parts of the world, that from the striking evidence of design in their structure and ways are deemed the marvelous productions of the Great Maker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Evolution of Life Or Causes of Change in Animal Forms written by Hubbard Winslow Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Evolution of Life, or Causes of Change in Animal Forms: A Study in Biology The great question of The Evolution of Life upon the earth, and the causes that have led to the successive changes in animal forms, is one that should be treated from an anatomical and a physiological point of view. Scientists have hitherto spoken of these changes that have taken place, and have concurred in the opinion that the lower forms of life have advanced in the scale of development, and in time have given rise to higher and newer forms. It is believed and generally accepted that the protoplasmic cell was the first vital organism that appeared upon the earth - that, following this in order came the protozoans, the fishes, the reptiles, the marsupials, the mammals, the higher apes, and finally man, but no attempt has ever been made, as far as I know, to explain the physiological causes of these changes in the anatomy of the animal kingdom. It is only a part of the truth to say that a reptile was evolved from a fish, a mammal from a reptile, and man from the higher apes. But this is not enough. The world is advancing to that point when it demands to know [1010 these changes took place, by what physi ological process they occurred, and what was the reason that induced them to change. It is this great point that I have endeavored to explain, - how far, and how well I have succeeded, I leave others to judge. If any thing is left unsaid or unexplained it may serve as a stimulus to future writers to finish the work I have planned out. I have written this work from a physi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Zoology the Study of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by E. W. Macbride and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Zoology the Study of Animal Life The word zoology is derived from the Greek word zeon, which meant animal, and from the termination - logia, which signified a discourse. The name therefore, as might be ex pected, denotes the science of animals, and is therefore narrower in its scope than the science of biology, which deals with everything living and of which the science of zoology forms a subdivision. We see, therefore, that at the outset we are faced with two fundamental questions, viz. (1) What is life? And (2) What is an animal? To no two questions is it more difficult to give a precise answer than to these. If with Herbert Spencer we define life as the continuous adjustment of internal to external relations, who is the wiser, or who has any better conception of life as a result of the definition? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Secrets of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by J. Arthur Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Secrets of Animal Life The authors are not prepared to Offer any solution of the problem of distant orientation in birds, but they have made a distinct step in proving that un trained birds can return successfully across the apparently trackless sea from a distance of 800 to 1000 miles. Dr. Lashley has Shown that for short distances on the island itself the terms adjust them selves to nest and mate and young on a basis largely of visual experience, helped a little by memory of movements, and sometimes by sounds. There is no whit of evidence of any unusual sensitiveness nor of the functioning of any hypothetical sense organ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal Life in Field and Garden Classic Reprint written by Jean Henri Fabre and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Life in Field and Garden N these talks that we shall have together, said Uncle Paul, as he sat with his nephews one eve ning in May under the big elder tree in the garden, I propose to designate as 'friends' those forms of animal life that, though not domesticated or cared for by us, nevertheless come to our aid by waging war on insects and various other devouring creatures which would in the end, unless their excessive multi plication were kept in restraint by others besides ourselves, eat up all our crops and lay waste our fields; and it is these ravagers Of the farmer's care fully tilled acres that I shall speak of as 'foes.' What can man's efforts avail against those voracious hordes, multiplying as they do every year to an extent beyond calculation? Will he have the patience, the Skill, the keenness of vision necessary for waging successful warfare on the tiniest Species, Often the most formidable, when the J une-bug, despite its far greater Size, baffles all his endeavors? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Study of Animal Life Classic Reprint written by J. Arthur Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of Animal Life The four parts of the book Will appeal to students of different tastes. For some are most interested in habits and functions, others in form and structure, others in development and life-history, and others in the general problems of evolution. Each of these aspects has its own interest, and the student should begin with the one which most attracts him. But all must be taken into account if we are to get an all-round View of animal life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book On Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life written by George Ossian Sars and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life: From the Great Deeps Off the Norwegian Coast Preface. Under the above title I purpose, if I can obtain the necessary assistance, to make known little by little the most important discoveries which I have had opportunity to make during my deep-sea investigations in recent years; and I shall consider it my duty first to treat those animal forms which my Father has already partially examined and designated. The present university-program comprises some of these belonging to 6 diiferent classes of animals, namely 2 Polyzoa, 2 Conchifera, 3 Cephalophores, 2 Annelids, 2 Corals and 3 Sponges. These animal forms had already been partially destined by my Father for more detailed notice in a university-program similar to that composed on the subject of the Rhizocrinus; and application for the requisite assistance was already sent in to the academical college, when his unexpected death put a sudden end to the important investigations which he had commenced. It is therefore with deep gratitude that I here acknowledge the kindness of the college, in confiding to me the elaboration and publishing of the intended program; and although I am well aware of my want of that thorough acquaintance with the invertebrate animals, and of that clear and precise method of treatment which always distinguished my Father's works, it is still a pleasure for me to have opportunity given for prosecuting to the best of my power those investigations, to which my Father devoted himself with so much zeal and perseverance, until the day of his death. Although, as above stated, the present program was intended to be published by my Father, still the necessary detailed investigations were scarcely more than commenced, for which reason also no manuscript had been compiled. I find however, among my late Fathers papers, notes on most of the animal forms mentioned in the following lines, and with respect to some of them also more complete descriptions, which have been of great help to me in the elaboration of the present program. I have also always quoted as conscienciously as possible my Father's more coherent remarks, which certainly will have their important value. Where this has taken place, I have always expressly remarked it in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Forms of Animal Life Being Outlines of Zoological Classification written by George Rolleston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forms of Animal Life Being Outlines of Zoological Classification: Based Upon Anatomical Investigation and Illustrated by Descriptions of Specimens and of Figures Whilst the student is directed not to be dissatisfied at any failure of his memory to retain, in the absence of the natural object, the multitudinous details to which a good descriptive work will have directed his attention during his examination of it, he is warned that he must not acquiesce in any failure of power to verify in such an object, when present, the structural arrangements which he is informed are to be seen in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
