ClIAP. 1. 



HISTORY OF THE ACALEPIIS. 



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SECTION III. 



THE NATURALISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



Travellers/ observevs,^ and compilers'^ continuo their woi'k iluriiig tins period in 

 nearly the same spirit as towards the close of the preceding century, Avitli this 

 difference only, that the field of inquiry is gradually enlarging and extending. It is 

 no longer the mere existence of curious animals and plants which attracts the atten- 

 tion : a desire of apjn'cciating their relations to one another has evidently taken hold 

 of the naturalists, and this aspiration reaches soon a climax in the puljlication of the 

 " Si/stema N^aiura'" the great work of this age, and the foundation of the lastins^ 

 fame of Linnaeus. 



Though LinntBus himself added com^oaratively little to the general stock of infor- 

 mation respecting the Acalephs, he had, nevertheless, as great an influence in preparing 

 the way for their systematic arrangement as in other classes of the animal king- 

 dom, by extending to them his Innominal nomenclature. Yet, in the " Si/sicma 

 Naturce" the members of the class of Acalephs are so far removed from one another 

 as to slu)w that Linnanis did not even dream of the true relations that unite the 



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2 vols. foL fig. TOURNEFORT (JoS. PiTTON DE), 



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