Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from d104 Book of Zoology
AN English translation of Dr. Boas's Lehrbuch der Zoologie, which has already appeared in two Danish and two German editions, has been arranged in the hope that it may prove useful to yet a larger public.
The translation is designed, in the first place, to assist beginners in the study of Zoology but the needs of students of Medicine, of Veterinary Surgery, and of Forestry have also been kept in View. It will be noticed that Dr. Boas gives prominence to facts rather than to theories, and of these, such as should be of use to one or other of the classes of readers just enumerated, or as should be most convenient for verification.
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