Animal Life in Fresh Water: A Guide to Fresh-Water Invertebrates

✍ Scribed by Helen Mellanby M.D., Ph.D. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1963
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

by Professor L. E. Eastham Formerly Professor of Zoology in the University of Sheffield Most books are written with the intention of supplying some particular need, but few end with such single purpose. Mrs. Mellanby's is no exception, for while the author planned this work to serve as a guide to the school pupil, which function it fulfils in an admirable way, it will also prove of value to the teacher, the university student and the amateur naturalist. While it may be argued that it is not the function of the Uni­ versities to teach Natural History in the commonly accepted sense, it will always be the aim of Zoologists to know more about animals, what they are and do, where they live and why they live in particular environments. It is unfortunate, in view of the fact that the majority of students of Zoology enter the teaching pro­ fession, that the increasing load of instruction in morphology, physiology, cytology, genetics, evolution and the like frequently makes a personal study of animal life in relation to environment almost impossible. The fortunate ones visit the sea for a fort­ night's course in Marine Ecology; the others take posts in schools without even this respite and set about converting their academic learning to a school curriculum. The result is an undesirable and often slavish imitation of university method in the school class­ room.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Life in Fresh Water....Pages 5-10
Fresh-Water Sponges....Pages 11-15
Hydroids: Fresh-Water Coelenterates....Pages 16-21
Flatworms ( Platyhelminthes )....Pages 22-44
The Roundworms ( Nematoda )....Pages 45-48
The True Worms ( Annelida )....Pages 49-70
The Arthropoda: Crustacea....Pages 71-119
The Arthropoda: Insects....Pages 120-162
The Insects ( continued )....Pages 163-227
The Arthropoda: The Arachnids....Pages 228-240
The Mollusca....Pages 241-266
The Polyzoa or Moss Animalcules....Pages 267-269
The Wheel Animalcules ( Rotifera )....Pages 270-282
The Protozoa....Pages 283-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-308

✦ Subjects

Invertebrates; Science, general