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THE pursuit of economic zoology has never been so keenly taken up in this country as has the corresponding aspect of botany. Whether it is that the purely intellectual problems of zoology are relatively more fascinating than those offered by the study of vegetables, or owing to some more recondite reason, it is certain that zoologists make less capital out of the practical application of zoological science to human needs than do the botanists. There is a fine field open for an economic entomologist who has the energy to avail himself of the endless variety of new material, in the form of “noxious insects,” which is almost daily discovered in our remoter colonies and tropical territories. The life-history of the animals which serve man as food is another and equally important branch of economic zoology.
The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes.
By W. C. McIntosh A. T. Masterman. Pp. 516. (London: Clay and Sons, 1897.)
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LANKESTER, E. The Life-Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes. Nature 56, 337–338 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056337a0
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