The Geographical Atlas pictures the surface of the earth, with its mountains, seas and lakes, its continents, islands and rivers; but to illustrate the wonderful and endless variety of the phases of Plant life, Animal life, and Human life that diversify this surface, a supplementary, or rather accompanying, Atlas is wanted; and this requirement the Pictorial Atlas of Nature is intended to fulfil.
Here will be found, in the Ethnological Plates, types of the families of the Human Race; in the Natural History department, the different Animals; and in the Botanical illustrations, the Plants of the various quarters of the globe. The Outline Map on each plate, with numbers corresponding to those of the separate illustrations, will enable the learner to find, and the teacher to point out, the habitat of the various Men, Animals and Plants.
The Woodcuts have been prepared with the greatest care, the Animals and Plants being drawn from nature, and the pictures of races, in almost every case, taken either from the life or from well-authenticated photographs. Many eminent men of science have lent their valuable assistance in verifying the correctness of the pictures, and no pains have been spared to make the work as complete as possible.
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