RISE AND PROGRESS OF ZOOLOGY. AS 
tural history, is beyond all doubt; but it may safely 
be affirmed, that its science, or its philosophy, 
derived little or no direct benefit from his splendid 
compositions. His character and his writings were 
in complete accordance with those of the nation to 
which he belonged; and his immediate popularity 
was the consequent result. From that time the 
cultivators of zoology were divided into two schools ; 
one party following the systematic investigation 
inculeated by Linnzus, the other ranged them- 
selves under the banners of Buffon, and gathered 
the flowers, without probing for the honey. 
(19.) The disciples of Linnzeus, whose proceed- 
ings we shall first briefly sketch, followed, with 
little deviation, the line of enquiry and the plan of 
arranging their discoveries, pursued by their great 
master. Artedi, who was among the earliest and 
most eminent disciples of this school, studied fish: 
and his Ichthyology is one of the most valuable 
treatises of those animals we even now possess. By 
the recommendation of Linnzeus, the wealthy Seba 
intended to have engaged him in describing and 
arranging the ichthyological portion of. his volu- 
minous work, already alluded to: but by the sudden 
and premature death of young Artedi, occasioned 
by his falling into one of the canals on returning at 
night to his lodgings, this project was defeated. 
Linnezus, who edited the works of his friend and 
pupil, prefixed to the volume an interesting Life of 
its author, which will be perused with pleasure.* 
The curious reader will find in the first part an 
* P. Artedi. Ichthyologia, sive Opera omnia de Piscibus. 
Lug. Bat. 1738. 1 vol. 8yo. 
