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1 Macalister, Alexander (with A.S. Packard Jr.) Two Volumes in One. Zoology
New York Henry Holt and Co. 1884 Hard Cover Good to Very Good  
16mo. In two sections: xii. 143 pgs (Invertebrata); xii. 134 pgs.(Vertebrata). Good to Very Good condition brown cloth hardcover. Vintage zoology. Illustrated with black and white drawings throughout text. Cloth covered boards with general darkening to cloth, spine ends rubbed and frayed, some chipping to front board edges. Front endpaper removed, internally clean, unmarked, hinges sound. Faint water spot at exterior of bottom of text block edge, internally not affected. Contents of chapters include: Section One: nature of animals, classification of animals, conditions of distribution in time and space-freshwater, marine, terrestrial, methods of study of zoology, protozoa, amoebae, animalcules-Gregarines and Radiolarians, infusion animals, luminous animalcules, sponges, coelenterate animals-hydras, sea-firs, medusae, sea anmones, corals, dead men's toes, sea pens, echinodermata: stone lilies, feather stars, star fishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, worms: tubellarians, tape worms, flukes, round and thread worms, wheel animacules: spoon worms, leeches, bristles worms, earth worms, summary of normal worms, aberrant worms-moss polyps and tunicated animals, mollusca: arm-footed, bivalves, head-bearing mollusks-whelks, snails, cuttle-fishes, nautili and squids, summary of characters of classes of mollusca, jointed animals or arthropoda, crustacea, spiders, mites, scorpions, myriopoda, centipedes and galley worms, insects-general character and structure, imperfect and complete metamorphoses, index, glossary. Section two: characteristics of vertebrate animals, acrania, craniota, pisces (fishes), lampreys, sharks, ganoid fishes, bony fishes, amphibia, reptiles, lizards, snakes tortoises, crocodiles, aves (birds), classification of birds, mammalia, classification of mammalia, placental mammals, prosimii or lemurs, insectivora, chiroptera (bats), primates, man, races of man. inex and glossary. #1277.  
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