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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – BIOLOGY

BIOLOGY (βίος λόγος).—The science of life—a general designation which includes under it all scientific investigation as to any form of life, and as to the relations of the different orders of animate existence. The term biological thus covers the whole range of Natural History and Physiology, including the entire sweep of inquiry concerned with the problem of Evolution.

  Whewell’s History of Scientific Ideas; Huxley’s Elementary Biology; Parker’s Zootomy. Departments of the subject:— Asa Gray’s Structural Botany; Darwin’s Insectivorous Plants; Huxley’s Anatomy of Invertebrate Animals; Foster’s Embryology; Carpenter’s Human Physiology; Rutherford’s Physiology.