Excerpt from General Zooelogy: Practical, Systematic and Comparative; Being a Revision and Rearrangement of Orton's Comparative Zooelogy The first thing to be determined about a new specimen is not its name but its most prominent character. Until you know an animal, care not for its name: agassiz. The great benefit which a scientific education bestows, whether as training or as knowledge, is dependent upon the extent to which the mind of the student is brought into immediate contact with facts - upon the degree to which he learns the' habit of appealing directly to Nature. Huxley. 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.