Front matter
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Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.
The different parts of the book have been included in the page numbering: prefixes I, P, A and H for the Preface / Introduction and the parts on Plant biology, Animal biology, and Human biology respectively.

FIRST COURSE IN BIOLOGY

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KENTISH PLOVER WITH EGGS AND YOUNG (Protective Resemblance)
From the Exhibit in the British Natural History Museum. (Morgan.)
FIRST COURSE IN BIOLOGY
BY L. H. BAILEY PART I. PLANT BIOLOGY AND WALTER M. COLEMAN PART II. ANIMAL BIOLOGY PART III. HUMAN BIOLOGY
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909
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Copyright, 1908, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1908. Reprinted October, 1908; February, September, 1909.
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