ZOOLOGY FOR SCHOOLS. OUTLINES OF NATURAL HISTORY, for Beginners: being Descriptions of a Progressive Series of Zoological Types. By HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D., D.Sc., M.A., PH.D., F.R.S. E., F.G.S., &c., Professor of Natural History in the University of St Andrews. 2d Edition. Fcap. 8vo, with Engravings, 1s. 6d. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY, for THE USE OF JUNIOR CLASSES. With 127 Engravings. A New [In the press. Edition. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. TEXT-BOOK OF ZOOLOGY, for the Use of Schools. 2d Edition. Crown 8vo, pp. 378, with 188 Engravings on Wood, 6s. "We can very cordially recommend the work, and feel sure that an earnest teacher, with the help of a microscope to illustrate the earlier sections of the book, with a few specimens for class-demonstration, and with a full belief in the power of natural history to interest intelligent observers, cannot fail to awaken mind, and at the same time to train his pupils to habits of correct and profitable observation."-Quarterly Journal of Education. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged. A MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY, for the Use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Zoology, and Glossary of Scientific Terms. Crown 8vo, pp. 732, with 300 Engravings on Wood, 12s. 6d. "It is the best manual of zoology yet published, not merely in England but in Europe."-Pall Mall Gazette. "The best handbook for students that we at present possess."-Westminster Review. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. EXAMINATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY: Being a Progressive Series of Questions adapted to the Author's Introductory and Advanced Text-Books and the Students' Manual of Zoology. 1s. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY. Crown 8vo, with numerous Engravings, 5s. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A MANUAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, for the Use OF STUDENTS. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Paleontology. With upwards of 400 Engravings. One volume, crown 8vo, 15s. A MANUAL OF BOTANY, Anatomical and PhysioLOGICAL. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. By ROBERT BROWN, M.A., PH.D., F.R.G.S., Lecturer on Botany under the Science and Art Department of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 12s. 6d. W. BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. PREFACE. AN elementary Latin class may be taught with one or other of the following objects : : 1. To lay a foundation for thoroughly accurate Latin scholarship. 2 To awaken thought, call out the nascent mental powers, and thus cultivate the mind. 3. To teach grammar, and elucidate the meaning and spelling of the words of some modern language, as English or French. As to teaching Latin for colloquial purposes, the time for that is past for ever. Hence we should not attempt to teach it as we do the modern languages. Having large elementary Latin classes, both of boys and girls, only a small percentage of whom are destined for any learned profession, I have endeavoured to combine these three objects, and, without sacrificing the first, to give due attention to the others. With this purpose I have prepared this little book, the prominent features of which will be seen to be: 1. Exceptions and irregularities are studiously avoided, as tending to burden the memory, without at first serving any good purpose. 2. The words used are, as far as possible, only those from which English words are derived. 3. An exercise on Derivation is attached to each lesson, the roots of the English words being found in the previous vocabulary. 4. The first and second persons of the verb (with the exception |