"The Father of Zoology."

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, who lived between the years 384 and 322 B. C., has been called "The Father of Natural History." His father was physician to Amyntas, King of Macedon. When seventeen years old, Aristotle went to Athens and became a favorite pupil of Plato, although he did not always agree with his teachings. When he was forty-one years old, in 343 B. C., Philip, King of Macedon, sent for him to teach his son, Alexander, who afterwards became Alexander the Great. Prince Alexander, then a boy of thirteen years, always loved his teacher. After he had conquered Persia and the then known world, he sent to Aristotle 800 talents--about $1,000,000--to enable him to write a "History of Animals"; and he also employed a great many men to catch animals, that Aristotle might have the living animals before him to study and compare. Of the many books which Aristotle wrote on Science and Art, which were placed in the great Alexandrian Library, the most important were his works on natural history, in which animals were first scientifically described and divided into classes.

Aristotle, "the Father of Zoology," died when sixty-two years old, 322 B. C.