Studies of Animal Life

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Excerpt from Studies of Animal Life: A Series of Laboratory Exercises for the Use of High Schools The following studies are the result of seven years experience in the high schools of Chicago, where the experiment of applying modern laboratory methods to the study of zoology and botany in secondary schools has already passed through the trial stages and become in some measure an acknowledged success. As the title indicates, the subject-matter of this book is animal life and not animal forms, the authors point of view being to study living animals and to interpret their activities, so far as possible, instead of compiling a series of zoological obituaries. For the majority of high school pupils who do not go to college, being early forced into the active duties of life, zoology has a peculiar mission, since it awakens a healthful interest in living things and aids in forming habits of exact and philosophical observation. It is far more important to make "naturalists" of such pupils than anatomists, consequently all laboratory dissection is omitted. Only advanced pupils showing a decided inclination for such work, or those having some definite purpose in view, should be encouraged to attempt dissection so long as other more congenial avenues of discovery remain unexplored. A briefer comparative study of several related animals seems to lay a better foundation for future additions to the pupils knowledge than a more exhaustive study of single types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.