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 Regne Animal became as insuf- 

 ficient a vehicle for concentrating this vast accession 

 of knowledge, as was the Systema Naturce at the 

 death of Linnaeus. 



(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 l'Amerique 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 Oiseaux 

 Dores; ou, a Reflets Metalliques. Paris, 1802. 2 vols, folio 

 and 4 to. 



* C. I. Temminck. Manuel d'Ornithologie ; ou, Tableau 

 Systematique des Oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe. Paris, 

 1820. 2 vols. 8vo. 



