ADDENDUM. 



PENNANT BUFFON GOLDSMITH BEWICK BINGLEY. 



IN addition to the critical remarks on the writings of 

 others, on this subject, which the reader will find in the 

 following pages, I have further to observe that, although 

 Pennant and Buffon have held a very high character, 

 for many years, as scientific naturalists, the portion of 

 their works which treats of the Genus Bos, appears to 

 have been the result of the most careless and superficial 

 observation. With the exception of the facts and obser- 

 vations furnished by such men as Daubenton and Pallas, 

 Buffon's works are little more than flimsy speculations. 

 As to Pennant's history of the Ox Tribe, it is calculated 

 rather to bewilder than to inform ; it is, in fact, an 

 incoherent mass of dubious statements, huddled together 

 in a most inextricable confusion : as a piece of Natural 

 History it is absolutely worse than nothing. 



Goldsmith, Bewick, and Bingley, three of our most 

 popular writers on Natural History, appear to have done 

 little more than compile from Pennant and Buffon, and 

 consequently are but little deserving of credit. These 

 strictures apply exclusively to such portions of their works 

 as relate to the Ox Tribe. 



