A Text-Book of Invertebrate Morphology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Invertebrate MorphologyThe Morphology of Invertebrate Animals may be treated either from the standpoint of Comparative Anatomy or from the zoological side, and either method of treatment has much to recommend it. In my experience, however, the zoological method has proved most satisfactory for the presentation of the subject to students, inasmuch as it is necessarily the method employed in the laboratory, and accordingly in the present work that plan of presenting the facts of morphology has been followed. A bare statement of the structural peculiarities of the various groups, however, is simply collect ing the bricks and stones without the mortar necessary to unite them together into a substantial edifice, and where the opportunity has presented itself attention has been directed to the comparative significance of various organs and to the affinities of the various groups.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.