ZOOLOGY

n : The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledict a.) ‘The father of Zodlogy was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the science’s most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (L’ His to ire générale des animaux and A History of Animated Nature) that the domestic cow sheds its horns every two years.