 | Maine. Board of Agriculture, Maine. Department of Agriculture - 1873 - 516 pages
...importance, and best acquired by the pursuits of the naturalist. Hence Professor Edward Forbes remarks: "The study of an animal or vegetable species is the...concerned. The form, the substance, the qualities, the phenomena of existence, the influence of surrounding objects, are all observed with the greatest precision... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1873 - 624 pages
...importance, and best acquired by the pursuits of the naturalist. Hence Professor Edward Forbes remarks : " The study of an animal or vegetable species is the...concerned. The form, the substance, the qualities, the phenomena of existence, the influence of surrounding objects, are all observed with the greatest precision... | |
 | 1868 - 664 pages
...follows : — •' The first lesson of natural history is observation. The study of a vegetable or animal species is the perfection of observation as far as...concerned. The form, the substance, the qualities, the phenomena of existence, the influence of surrounding objects, are all observed with the greatest precision,... | |
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This is of prime importance, and best acquired by the pursuits of the naturalist. Hence Professor Edward Forbes remarks: "The study of an animal or vegetable species is the perfection of observation as far as that species is concerned. The form, the substance,... 