. A synopsis of natural history: embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology and geology. P. S D uval ILi&v. Phiïa 9 A SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL HISTORY: EMBRACING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, WITH HUMAN AND GENERAL ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY,BOTANY, VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. ?Mjt TRANSLATED U. *m - FROM THE LATEST FRENCH EDITION OF C. LEMMONNIER, PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHARLEMAGNEWITH ADDITIONS FROM THE WORKS OF CUVIER, DUMARIL, LACEPEDE, ETC. ; AND ARRANGED AS A TEXT BOOK FOR SCHOOLS. W H BY T


. A synopsis of natural history: embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology and geology. P. S D uval ILi&v. Phiïa 9 A SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL HISTORY: EMBRACING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS, WITH HUMAN AND GENERAL ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY,BOTANY, VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. ?Mjt TRANSLATED U. *m - FROM THE LATEST FRENCH EDITION OF C. LEMMONNIER, PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHARLEMAGNEWITH ADDITIONS FROM THE WORKS OF CUVIER, DUMARIL, LACEPEDE, ETC. ; AND ARRANGED AS A TEXT BOOK FOR SCHOOLS. W H BY THOMAS WYATT, , AUTHOR OF ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, MANUAL OF CONCHOLOGY, ETC. Illustrated by Plates^^^^. PHILADELPHIA:THOMAS WARDLE. 15 MINOR STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. Entered, according to the act of congress, in the year 1839, by Thomas Wyatt, in theclerks office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. INTRODUCTION. The Work here presented to the public was undertakenwith the hope of supplying, in part at least, what seemed aremarkable deficiency in the course of academical studypursued throughout the United States, under the general, butnot often rigidly denned appellation of Natural History. In the respective departments of the Natural History ofAnimals, exclusive of Conchology and Human Physiology,in this latter science itself, in Botany with Vegetable Physio-logy, and in Geology, although much remains to be done, stillthere appears no absolute hiatus, in regard to the necessarytext books. I say in these respective departments; but itmust have occurred to every scientific man who thinks uponthe subject, as singular, that in a science whose very exist-ence may be tru


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