E-text prepared by "Teary Eyes" Anderson
and Dedicated To Destanie;
With Hopes Her Dream of Becoming A veterinarian Comes True
Special Thanks to Deborah Furness of the University College Londonfor her help, and research, in learning about this book, and helpingme understand it better. Spell-checked with www.thesolutioncafe.com
Transcriber's Note:
I try to edit my e-texts so they can easily be used with voicespeech programs, I believe blind people and children should alsobe able to enjoy the many books now available electronically. Iuse the -- for an em-dash, with a space either before or afterit depending on its usage. This helps to keep certain programsfrom squishing the words together, such as down-stairs. Also tohelp voice speech programs I've enclosed upper case textbetween - and _ (-UPPER CASE TEXT_), and used underscores toshow chapter and section headers. I also added a secondcontents that shows the other sections of this e-text. Thise-text was made with a "Top can" text scanner, with a bit ofcorrecting here and there.
This book is volume one of two. It was later reworked by A. M.Davies in 1898 under the title "Text-book of Zoology",then revised and rewritten by J. T. Cunningham about 1909 and W. H.Leigh-Sharpe around 1932. Although these editions gave Wells themain credit, most of Wells' writing and all his drawings wereremoved; only his rough outline seems to have been used. It wasre-published by University Tutorial Press.
The First Edition, as well as The Second and Revised Edition (withdissections redrawn by Miss A. C. Robbins) are used in this e-text.The First Edition had some small minor errors, as well as dissectionabbreviations that are shown on the Dissection Sheets, but nomention of them was listed in the text. Certain figures on theDissections Sheets are missing (such as Figures 1, 2, 4, with nomention to a 3, as if Mr. Wells drew a Figure 3 but found it was notneeded and removed it from the book). Rather then leaving it as is, Iput {} marks around my notes saying things like {No Figure 3}. For the"Second and Revised Edition" Wells was able to change some ofthese errors and missing parts, but many of the same printing tabletswere used and with almost each addition other things were removed,(in one instance one entire section from a chapter), andmany of the helpful suggestions were shortened or removed so otherthings could be explained more. In an ideal version of the book bothcould have been used, but with reprinting the entire book from the firstto the second editions almost as many things were lost as weregained, so I've tried to indicate where both text go separate paths withthe following;
[Second Edition only text] and -First Edition only text,- and also
{Lines from Second Edition only.} and {Lines from First Edition only.}
where more than just a sentence is added or removed. Other things tonotice is how some words are spelt or punctuated differently throughoutthe book, such as;
Blood Vessels
Blood-Vessels
Bloodvessels
I've tried to keep these as close to the original book as possible.