Half Hours With The Lower Animals (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

Description

A turn-of-the-century handbook of jellyfishes, worms, crustaceans, insects, etc.

Contents:
Inhabitants of a drop of water -- The sponges -- The jellyfishes -- The sea anemones -- The corals -- The stone lilies -- The stars of the sea -- Ocean hedgehogs -- The sea cucumbers -- The worms -- The two-valved shells -- The univalves -- The cuttlefishes -- The crustaceans -- From barnacles to lobsters -- The crabs -- Luminous crabs -- The insects -- Lower forms of insects -- The spiders -- Some six-legged insects -- Some mimics -- The grasshoppers and locusts -- The beetles -- The bugs -- Flies and mosquitoes -- The butterflies and moths -- The ants -- The bees and wasps.

Excerpt :
AT the present day education is not complete without definite courses of nature study. We are living in an age of strenuous business life and activity, where the best equipped students along the various lines secure the best positions. Time was when zoology, botany, and kindred nature studies were classed with music and the so-called dead languages, and were taken up as incidentals or were employed in mind training; but to-day there are a thousand branches of trade and commerce which require knowledge that can be obtained only through nature study.