Figure 230. Wilson's Tern. Figure 231. Arctic Skua. Figure 232. Great Black-backed Gull - ab26311c3b1452d2b065246eb6f0a5a5

Figures 230, 231, and 232 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology. Figure 230 depicts a Wilson's tern. Figure 231 depicts an Arctic skua, also known as a parasitic jaeger. Figure 232 depict a great black-backed gull. Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two kingdoms of nature: the Invertebrates and the Vertebrates. The volume includes copious intaglio printed illustrations of the animals described, as well as a series of charts detailing the systematic arrangement of representative forms. This is one of a series of textbooks written by American educator Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886), who often worked in collaboration with his wife Esther Baker Steele (1835-1911). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed posthumously by J. W. P. Jenks (1819-1894), Professor of Agricultural Zoology at Brown University, who is credited as a co-author on the volume.