CONTENTS. xvii 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



PAGB 



Childhood of Haller Foundation of the University of Gottingen 

 in 1736 Haller made Professor of Anatomy Haller's Ana- 

 tomical Plates He discovers the po\\er of Contraction of the 

 Muscles Rise of Comparative Anatomy John Hunter's in- 

 dustry in Dissecting and Comparing the Structures of different 

 Animals His Museum and the arrangement of his Collection 

 Bonnet's Experiments on Plants Experiments upon Animals by 

 Bonnet and Spallanzani Regrowth of different parts when cut 

 off Bonnet's theory of Gradual Development of Plants and 

 Animals Anatomical Works of Haller He discovers the 

 power of the Muscles to contract ...... 195 



CHAPTER XXV. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED) 



Birth and Early Life of Buffon and Linnaeus compared Buffon's 

 Work on Natural History Daubenton wrote the Anatomical 

 Part Buffon's Books very interesting, but not always accurate 

 He first worked out the Distribution of Animals Struggles of 

 Linnceus with Poverty Mr. Clifford befriends him He becomes 

 Professor at Upsala He was the first to give Specific Names to 

 Animals and Plants Explanation of his Descriptions of Plants 

 Use of the Linnaean or Artificial System Afterwards super- 

 seded by the Natural System Linnaeus first used accurate terms 

 in describing Plants and Animals Character of Linmeus Sale 

 of his Collection, and Chase by the Swedish Man-of-war . . 204 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



The Study of the Earth neglected during the Dark Ages Preju- 

 dices concerning the Creation of the World Attempts to Ac- 

 count for Buried Fossils Palissy, the Potter, first asserted that 

 Fossil-shells were real Shells Scilla's Work on the Shells of 

 Calabria, 1670 Woodward's Description of Different Forma- 

 tions, 1695 Lazzaro Moro one of the first to give a true expla- 



