The name of "Sloth" popularly bestowed on this animal is not so well-deserved as some writers of Zoology made Easy have represented.
This happens annually in the case of all deer--one of the common and universal facts in zoology that many find it hard to believe.
This term has supplanted in zoologythe old term Vertebrata (now reserved as a class name only), because it is more comprehensive and precise.
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
The fly-catcher of the Zoology (the stoparola of Ray), builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house.
The fifth class of Linnæus comprised the Insects; and the branch of Zoology which treats of them is called Entomology.
That part of Zoology which treats of Birds is called Ornithology.
As well might naturalists contrast zoologywith chemistry, or seek to incorporate geology with botany--the living with the dead--as try to explain the spiritual life in terms of mind alone.
The facts as stated are true in contemporary zoology if not in palæontology.
It takes evolution in zoology for Evolution as a whole.
Footnote 1: Prodromus Faunæ Zeylanicæ; being Contributions to the Zoology of Ceylon, by F.
To him, and to the gentleman I have named, we are mainly indebted, for whatever accurate knowledge we now possess of the zoology of the colony.
Neglect of Zoology in Ceylon Monkeys Wanderoo Error regarding the Silenus Veter (note) Presbytes Cephalopterus P.
Not infrequently young men came to him who were utterly destitute of any knowledge or ability to study natural science, or zoology in particular, but had an idea that it would be a 'soft snap,' as the boys say.
Hyatt, however, had never done anything in zoology or botany before he went to Agassiz and he found it hard to get a beginning, and so lost time.
A man cannot be a professor of zoology on one day, and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.
I remember that before I had been with him six months he told me I knew more zoology than most students did when they graduated.
Most persons do not, in fact, discern the close, though not obvious, relation between investigation in biology or zoology and the observation and comparison of those organic forms which we call forms of literature and works of art.
He had also a strong bent towards zoology and comparative anatomy, and carried on work of this description at the Royal College of Surgeons, of whose Hunterian Collection he afterwards became one of the trustees.
For his services to zoology he was awarded the gold medal of the Zoological Society in 1902, and in the same year was made an honorary doctor of science at Cambridge.
Zoology is, indeed, a philosophy and a literature to those who can read its symbols.
That the sister sciences of Botany and Zoology fall under one discipline, is expressed in the English usage of the term "Biology.
Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ); and John W.
As the official visitor of his order he had traveled through the greater part of Germany on foot, and with a keen eye for natural phenomena was able to enrich botany and zoology by much accurate information.
Darwin found the reptiles the most striking feature of the zoology of the islands.
There is no more reason for coupling Zoology with Physiology, than for tacking on Mineralogy to Chemistry.
I am not here to sing the praises of Physiology: its place is fixed and determined by the concurrence of all competent judges: I merely point out that Zoology does not include it, but presupposes it.
In point of outward form, Mineralogy and Zoology are kindred subjects.
It is zoology and animal physiology that cannot be so coupled.
The cat and the dog, for instance, are pronounced enemies, but nevertheless zoology recognizes them as being legitimate domestic companions.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has a specimen taken 3 mi.
There are specimens in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology taken at Coolin, Priest Lake, Kootenai County.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has specimens collected by me at S Fork Owyhee River, 12 mi.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoologyhas a specimen of this vireo taken 4 mi.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoologyhas specimens of this species, taken at Castle Creek Ranger Station, Idaho County, 7 mi.
Resident in southern Idaho; the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has specimens taken at W rim Copenhagen Basin, 8400 ft.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has a specimen taken at Indian Creek, 12 mi.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has one specimen of this bird taken on Salmon Creek, 8 mi.
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has one specimen taken on the W rim Copenhagen Basin, 8400 ft.
Vayssières, professor of Zoology in the faculty of sciences at Marseilles.
The variety of fishes caught at this anchorage was considerable, and furnished many additions to the ichthyological collection, to which the paucity of other objects in zoology for some time back enabled me to bestow much attention.
Such is the fullest reply the time at my disposal will allow me to give to the question--how may a knowledge of zoology be best acquired and communicated?
Had there been a hundred days more he might have found aphorisms for them all; and any one conversant with zoology might engage to construct a classification of animals on the very same principle.
Zoology had indeed made considerable progress; but botany had advanced in a still greater degree, having been cultivated by a host of naturalists, chiefly belonging to the medical profession.
In the Zoology of the district, the careful researches of Mr. M'Gillivray--the naturalist attached to H.
As the number of species of insects is believed to exceed that of all other animals taken together, it is no wonder that their study should form a special division of zoology with a distinctive name.
