Henry Goadby
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 366
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Excerpt from A d104-Book of Vegetable and Animal Physiology, Designed for the Use of Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges in the United States The Author having been appointed to the Chairs of Vegetable and Animal Physiology and Entomology, in the State Agricultural College of Michigan, has felt the want of a suitable text-book, for the use of his students, and not being aware of any existing work on the plan he considers essential for the acquisition of these subjects, he has prepared the accompanying volume to aid him in his labors, and to fulfil a request, previously made to him by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan, the Hon. Ira Mayhew, to write such a work. The "Botanies" hitherto published, are insufficient as physiologies; and the Animal physiologies, as yet prepared "for the use of Schools," are simply epitomized treatises on Human anatomy, and are generally too technical and obscure to be available for the purposes of popular instruction. This latter subject, a distasteful one, even to Medical Students, who rarely learn it, must necessarily prove a severe tax to the youth of both sexes, who throng the public and private schools of the country, whilst many of the illustrations supposed to be necessary to these books, are, to say the least of them, most uninviting. 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.