Excerpt from Zoological Science, or Nature in Living Forms: Illustrated by Numerous Plates; Adapted to Elucidate the Chart of the Animal Kingdom
The following work has been prepared as an accompaniment to the "General View of the Animal Kingdom" - a Chart which, in the beautiful and harmonious arrangement of its several parts; its lucid and orderly classification; its brief but comprehensive statements and explanations, - presents the subject in an outline so full and consistent as to make it valuable even to the most scientific naturalist, both for convenient private reference, and as a help or guide in public lectures; while the more uninitiated and such as are just setting out in the study of Natural History, becoming familiar with the details of the Chart, will, it is believed, desire and be prepared the better to appreciate additional information in relation to the subject; such information it is the aim of this work to impart.
The possessor of the Chart might have recourse to works of two kinds - one purely scientific, like those of Cuvier and others, or the works on Natural History published by State authority; the other, of a strictly popular character, in which not a single scientific or technical term is employed. The array of unexplained technical language in the former class of works, he would, perhaps, deem repulsive and discouraging; the descriptions of the latter class, he might, as related to the Chart, be often at a loss to apply correctly, though presenting to him the appearance of more interesting details than those which are found in works strictly scientific. The present volume, being a sort of medium between these two kinds of works, is adapted to meet the exigencies of such a case. It does not give the "characters" and "descriptions" with the technicality and minuteness of the purely scientific treatise; to do this was found to be incompatible with the desired limits, as well as the general design of this publication; at the same time, it is far from ignoring these things, after the manner of some popular treatises.
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