. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. BRIEF iiisronr of the sciknce of zoology 4G.: ist, John Ray. He saw the importance of reeognizmo; in ani- mals categories of successively diminishing rank in the ^'arious classes of the animal kingdom. But it was left to Linnteus (b. in Sweden 1707, d. 1778) to perfect the system by estab- lishing categories. The animal kingdom was di\'ided by him into classes, the classes into orders, each order into genera, and each genus into species. He in- vented the binomial nomencla- tiu'e that is still in use for bo
. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. BRIEF iiisronr of the sciknce of zoology 4G.: ist, John Ray. He saw the importance of reeognizmo; in ani- mals categories of successively diminishing rank in the ^'arious classes of the animal kingdom. But it was left to Linnteus (b. in Sweden 1707, d. 1778) to perfect the system by estab- lishing categories. The animal kingdom was di\'ided by him into classes, the classes into orders, each order into genera, and each genus into species. He in- vented the binomial nomencla- tiu'e that is still in use for both plants and animals. The first name is a sort of surname and indicates the genus; the second name gives the particular species. Thus, Felis catus is the particular name of the cat, Felis leo of the lion, Felis tigris of the tiger, and so on. Finallj', Linnaeus intro- duced the method of brief de- scription of the characteristic Fio. 417. — RImcrllus Malpighi. , r . 1 /. From Loev, " liUAo^y and its pomts of each group m place of Makers," New York, Henry Holt the wordy, ill-ordered descrip- and Companj-. tions of his predecessors. The brilliancy of Linnseus's work attracted many investigators, and the interest in collecting and classifying species remains to this day. Such '\\'ork, although often fascinating, is not the highest tyi^e of scientific work. The foundations of modern morphological or anatomical zoology were laid in part by men whose original interest was medical and in part l)y a new school of naturalists who studied the structure and behavior of the lower animals. As early as the middle of the seventeenth century we find Malpighi, pro- fessor of medicine at Bologna, publishing his investigations. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944;
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