JUST PUBLISHED. PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY, Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution and Natural Arrangement of the Races of Animals, living and extinct; with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part 1.-Comparative Physiology. BY LOUIS AGASSIZ AND AUGUSTUS A. GOULD. EXTRACTS FROM THE PREFACE. "The design of this work is to furnish an epitome of the leading principles of the science of Zoology, as deduced from the present state of knowledge, so illustrated as to be intelligible to the beginning student. No similar treatise now exists in this country, and, indeed, some of the topics have not been touched upon in the language, unless in a strictly technical form, and in scattered articles." . "Being designed for American students, the illustrations have been drawn, as far as possible, from American objects. Popular names have been employed as far as possible, and to the scientific names, an English termination has generally been given. The first part is devoted to Comparative Physiology, as the basis of Classification; the second, to Systematic Zoology, in which the principles of Classification will be applied, and the principal groups of animals briefly characterized." NOTICES OF THE PRESS. "This work has been expected with great interest. It is not simply a system by which we are taught the classification of Animals, but it is really what it professes to be, the 'Principles of Zoology,' carrying us on step by step, from the simplest truths to the comprehension of that infinite plan which the Author of Nature has established. This book places us in possession of information half a century in advance of all our elementary works on this subject. No work of the same dimensions has ever appeared in the English language, containing so much new and valuable information on the subject of which it treats."-Prof. James Hall, in the Albany Journal. "A work emanating from so high a source as the 'Principles of Zoology,' hardly requires commendation to give it currency. The public have become acquainted with the eminent abilities of Prof. Agassiz through his lectures, and are aware of his vast learning, wide reach of mind, and popular mode of illustrating scientific subjects. In the preparation of this work, he has had an able coadjutor in Dr. A. A. Gould, a frequent contributor to the Transactions of the Boston Society of Natural History, and at present engaged upon the department of Conchology, for the publication of the late exploring expedition. The volume is prepared for the student in zoological science; it is simple and elementary in its style, full in its illustrations, comprehensive in its range, yet well condensed, and brought into the narrow compass requisite for the purpose intended."-Silliman's Journal, June, 1848. "The work is admirably adapted to the use of schools and colleges, and ought to be made a study in all our higher seminaries, both male and female."-New York Observer. "To the testimony which is furnished by their distinguished scholarship, we may add, however, that the classifications of the work are so admirably arranged, and its descriptions given with so much simplicity and clearness of language, that the book cannot fail of its practical aim to facilitate the progress of the beginning student. It is a work for schools." New York Recorder. PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY— NOTICES OF THE PRESS. "The announcement of this work some time ago, as being in a course of preparation, excited a high degree of interest among teachers, students, and the friends of science. The names of its authors gave ample assurance that it was no compilation drawn from other works, no mere reconstruction of existing materials. The work will undoubtedly meet the expectations that have been formed of it, and already it has been adopted as a text-book in several colleges. It breaks new ground; as is said in the preface, 'some of its topics have not been touched upon in the language, unless in a strictly technical form, and in scattered articles.' The volume exhibits throughout great labor and care in preparing it for the public eye, and for the use of students. As it has no rival, we suppose its adoption will be almost universal in literary institutions, and it will do much to awaken in the minds of multitudes an enthusiastic love of natural history."- Christian Reflector & Watchman. "This work is designed as a text book for schools and colleges, and as an exposition of the interesting science of which it treats, it has many obvious advantages over any other treatise extant. It is the joint production of two gentlemen, whose researches in natural history have enlarged the domain of human knowledge, and one of whom stands confessedly at the head of the science of the age. It hence contains the latest and most approved classifications, with explanations and illustrations borrowed from the forms of animated nature, both living and extinct, and made accurate and perfect by the fullest acquaintance with the present condition of zoological science. As a text book it is admirably conceived. "The presence of Prof Agassiz in the United States, has given a new impulse to every branch of natural history, and we are happy to find him thus associated with Dr. Gould, one of our leading American naturalists, in explaining his favorite science to the youth of our schools and colleges." Providence Journal. "No such work had previously appeared in our country. The production is worthy of the great names under whose care it has been prepared. Prof. Agassiz has a world-wide reputation, and Dr. Gould is regarded by the scientific men of Europe as the most eminent naturalist of our country. Schools and Academies will find it opens up a new and attractive study for the young, and in no country is there a finer field opened up to the naturalist than in our own."- Christian Alliance, Boston. "A new and highly valuable publication, intended for a school book, but which will be found equally interesting and important for all to study. Such a work as this has long been a great desideratum, and we rejoice that a want so strongly felt, has now, at length, been so well and so completely supplied."-Boston Atlas. This is entirely a new field in American elementary literature, no similar treatise existing in this country. At first sight, the work appeared to us too abstruse for beginners, and for the use of those whom the author aims to benefit the scholars in our common schools. A more careful examination convinces us that any teacher or scholar, who is in earnest to understand the subject, will find the application necessary at the commencement comparatively trifling, while the subsequent benefit will be immense. This is the first volume of the work, and is devoted to Comparative Physiology, on which branch it is exceedingly complete. It is freely illustrated with the necessary wood cuts. The names of the authors will be a higher guarantee for scientific accuracy than any judgment we might pronounce." New York Commercial Advertiser. "It is designed chiefly for the use of schools and colleges, and as an epitome of the subject on which it treats, contains more in a small space, than any book of the kind that has yet fallen under our notice."-Saturday Gleaner, Philadelphia. |
