Project Gutenberg 2025-10-13 Public domain in the USA. 332 Ritzema Bos, J. (Jan) 1850 1928 Bos, J. Ritzema (Jan Ritzema) Bos, Jan Ritzema Ormerod, Eleanor A. (Eleanor Anne) 1828 1901 Ormerod, E. A. (Eleanor Anne) Ormerod, Eleanor Anne Ainsworth Davis, J. R. (James Richard) 1861 1934 Davis, James Richard Ainsworth Ainsworth-Davis, James Richard Davis, J. R. Ainsworth (James Richard Ainsworth) Agricultural zoology $aLondon :$bChapman & Hall, $c1894. Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Agricultural zoology" by J. Ritzema Bos is a scientific handbook written in the late 19th century. It surveys the animal kingdom with an emphasis on species that harm or help farming, offering clear identification, biology, and practical notes for students and working farmers. The opening of the book sets its purpose and audience in the author’s and translator’s prefaces, with Eleanor A. Ormerod’s introduction underscoring its practical value; a detailed contents list signals broad coverage from vertebrates to protozoa. It then explains zoological classification and binomial naming, followed by a concise primer on vertebrate anatomy and physiology (skeleton, muscles, nerves, digestion, circulation and respiration, reproduction including alternation of generations), and how heart structure differs across vertebrate classes. The text proceeds into applied accounts of mammals relevant to agriculture: cats, dogs, foxes, and mustelids (marten, polecat/ferret, stoat, weasel, mink, otter, badger) with balanced notes on damage versus benefits; insect-eaters (shrews, the mole, hedgehog) largely presented as allies; bats as valuable nocturnal insect hunters; and rodents (hares and rabbits, then mice and rats) with concise identification and their typical harms. This opening portion concludes mid-discussion of mouse and rat species and their agricultural impact. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/b28122562 20231221102537bos 1894 gb en Zoology, Economic QL Text 599818 2025-11-30T10:26:10.780296 text/html 562632 2025-10-13T13:30:33 text/html 16599385 2025-11-30T10:26:24.329241 application/epub+zip 16606269 2025-11-30T10:26:14.271248 application/epub+zip 300859 2025-11-30T10:26:12.446299 application/epub+zip 16988389 2025-11-30T10:26:30.536237 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 16947564 2025-11-30T10:26:22.457250 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 468601 2025-11-30T10:26:08.115343 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 448630 2025-10-13T13:30:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16790 2025-11-30T10:26:30.722160 application/rdf+xml 5036 2025-11-30T10:26:12.712271 image/jpeg 1161 2025-11-30T10:26:12.581242 image/jpeg 16904462 2025-11-30T10:26:11.287260 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia