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it has never been superseded by a better, cannot be 
looked upon as having advanced either the precision 
or the arrangement of Zoology. Another of the 
great collectors of this period was Albertus Seba, 
of Amsterdam, who, like our Pettiver, was a wealthy 
apothecary. He collected all sorts of animals from 
all regions, and went to an enormous expense in 
publishing their figures and descriptions.* The en- 
gravings, for the most part, are very good, particu- 
larly those of the shells; but the descriptions are 
beneath criticism. Another splendid publication of 
this sort, in two folio volumes, was published by 
Catesby on the Natural History of Carolina+, which 
is even now very useful, from the plates being 
coloured, and tolerably accurate. The descriptions, 
likewise, are in general faithful, although destitute 
of any scientific merit. 
(15.) Such were the ample materials existing in 
the year 1730, which the distinguished reformer of 
systematic Natural History, the great Sir Charles 
Linné (otherwise Linnzus), first began to model 
into shape; and which he ultimately condensed into 
the most simple, inviting, and luminous system the 
world had yet seen. ‘The life of this extraordinary 
manis too well known, and has been too often written, 
to require any notice in this place; but his merits 
have been so extravagantly extolled by one party, 
* Albertus Seba. Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium The- 
sauri accurata Descriptio. Amsterd. 1734. 1765. 
t+ The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Ba- 
hama Islands. By Mark Catesby, KE R.S. Lond. 1731. 
1743. With 220 plates. Another edition was edited by 
Edwards in 1771. 
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