90 STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
attest the progress which had now been made in 
zoological painting. The birds of Europe were 
most ably investigated by M. Temminck*, who has 
also written largely upon the Gallinaceous order. 
Voluminous dictionaries of natural history, in all its 
branches, followed each other in rapid succession ; 
until at length the Régne Animal became as insuf- 
ficient a vehicle for concentrating this vast accession 
of knowledge, as was the Systema Nature at the 
death of Linnzus. 
(39.) While the details of zoology were thus 
prosecuted in France with an ardour and a success 
perfectly unexampled, a feeling arose in the minds 
of a few eminent men of other countries, that the 
time had now arrived when an effort might be made 
to generalise the innumerable facts thus elicited ; 
and to reconcile, in some measure, the conflicting 
systems that were following “ thick and fast” upon 
each other. The science of zoology, up to this 
period, had assumed no appearance of collective 
symmetry. Every department had its own independ- 
ent system ; and although great order and regularity 
had been introduced into each, yet all the divisions 
teurs de la Zone Torride. Paris, 1805. folio. — Histoire 
Naturelle des Oiseaux de I’Amérique Septentrionale. Paris, 
1807. 2 vols. folio. 
J. B. Audebert. Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des 
Makis. Paris, 1800. folio. 
J. B. Audebert et Vieillot. Histoire Naturelle des Oiscaux 
Dorés; ou, a Reflets Métalliques. Paris, 1802. 2 vols. folio 
and 4to. 
* C. I. Temminck. Manuel d’Ornithologie; ou, Tableau 
Systématique des Oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe. Paris, 
1820. 2 vols. 8vo. 

