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llustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom

By Samuel Griswold Goodrich

2018-11-09 19:08:53

ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. The purpose of the present volume is to exhibit a series of well-authenticated anecdotes, calculated to illustrate the character and habits of the more prominent species of the animal kingdom. The plan of the work, of ... Read more
ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. The purpose of the present volume is to exhibit a series of well-authenticated anecdotes, calculated to illustrate the character and habits of the more prominent species of the animal kingdom. The plan of the work, of course, excludes full scientific descriptions; but it has been thought that it may be more useful, as well as interesting, to arrange the subjects according to the most approved system of classification, and to indicate, briefly, the leading traits of the several orders and genera. For a more scientific account of the animal kingdom, the reader is referred to "A Pictorial Natural History," &c., published by James Munroe & Co., Boston. Less

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File size437.059 KB
Print pages236
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9785040585908
Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 – May 9, 1860) was an American author, better known under the pseudonym Peter Parley. Goodrich was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, the son of a Congregatio...

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