Volume 1

Oysters, and all about them : being a complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary and curious information from the earliest writers to those of the present time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes / by John R. Philpots.

  • Philpots, John Richards.
Date:
1890-1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Oysters, and all about them : being a complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary and curious information from the earliest writers to those of the present time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes / by John R. Philpots. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But the utility of these sciences does not stop here ; in an educational point of view, their study accustoms the mind to proceed from effect to cause, testing each hypo- thesis by an appeal to facts. Finally, before all other studies, that of Natural History trains the mind to method^ that part of logic without which all investigation is labori- ous, every exposition obscure, {e) [e) “ Manual of Zoology.”—Milne Edwards.