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Not content, however, with giving accurate definitions of the differences between organised and unorganised bodies, of the nature of life, and the differences between animals and plants (basing these upon form, internal structure, chemical composition, motive power, and nature of food), he supplies some very lucid and elegantlywritten chapters on morphology and physiology, on the progress of development from the general to the special, on homology, analogy, and homomorphism, and on the correlation of growth. As each of these subjects involves a belief in various theoretical assumptions, on which perhaps not two zoologists in the world have the same opinion, we have to congratulate Dr Nicholson on supplying a précis of each author's argument, in a perfectly lucid and dispassionate manner. We fail to recognise in any previous zoological author the peculiar judicial art which Dr Nicholson exhibits, of showing all sides of the question, while apparently in no case obtruding his own individual opinions. This naturally places the present work on a far higher level than that possessed by its predecessors. It is the best manual of zoology yet published, not merely in England, but in Europe."-From the Pall Mall Gazette,' July 20, 1871. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. Crown 8vo, with numerous Engravings on Wood, 6s. "It is just what was wanted. The subject has been treated in a scientific spirit, but at the same time so clearly and well as to be quite within the comprehension of any young student who will bring ordinary attention to his task.' -Lancet. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY, FOR THE USE OF JUNIOR CLASSES. With 127 Engravings, 3s. 6d. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, Edinburgh and London. NEW CLASS-BOOKS IN SCIENCE. 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