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animals ; and impugns all observations as fallacious acquired 

 by means of them. The work is dedicated to Sir Anthony 

 Carlisle. 



Macgillivray, TV., A.M. F.R.S.E., &c., Author of « A Nar- 

 rative of the Travels and Researches of Alexander von 

 Humboldt : " Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle 

 to Linnaeus ; with Introductory Remarks on the Study of 

 Natural History, and Occasional Observations on the Pro- 

 gress of Zoology. Small 8vo, 390 pages, with a Portrait 

 of Linnaeus. Edinburgh and London, 1834. 5s, 

 Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Gesner, Belon, Salviani, Ron- 

 delet, Aldrovandi, Jonston, Goedart, Redi, Swammerdam, 

 Ray, Reaumur, Linnaeus, and Linnaeus the Younger, are 

 the naturalists memorialised. One hundred and ninety-three 

 pages are occupied by the memoir of Linnaeus; and this 

 memoir is one which, as we think, does justice to the charac- 

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 the blind zeal of a partisan, and possessed of the candour and 

 discrimination requisite in a judicious estimator. The work 

 will be of real use to younger students of the science of natu- 

 ral history, whatever may be their age, in enabling them to 

 blend, with their progressive acquirements in the science, 

 associations of the men, and of events in the lives of these 

 men, who have contributed so much to render this science 

 what it is. 



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