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It is indeed not a little remarkable that, among the nume- Classical 

 rous senses in which the word species is used by the Roman 

 classics, there is little appearance of its modern sense in natural 

 history. Nay, even in the modern languages, all its deriva- 

 tions and collaterals may be equally said to be foreign to that 

 acceptation ; as for example in the English, special, specially, 

 specialty, specific, specifically, specificate, specification, specify, 

 specimen, specious, speciously. It therefore chiefly belongs, with 

 the greater part of the Linnean language, to a modern latinity 

 so barbarous, as even to confound genders and cases, and 

 many others of the commonest rules of grammar. 



But to return to its use in modern mineralogy. In his 

 able criticism on Haiiy's Tableau Comparatif, the last fruit of 

 the researches of that eminent crystallogist, Lametherie has 

 shown that the supposed species can be ascertained by no means 

 but that of chemical analysis j and that the doctrine of the 

 integrant molecule has been abandoned by Haiiy himself*. 



Any sort of meat. (17.) A controversy. (l.) Species et figura humana, Cic. 

 pro T. Rose. 22. Specie lepidS. mulier, Plant. Rud. 2, 4, 2. Proraissa barha 

 et capilli efferaverant specietn oris, Liv. 2, 23. (2.) Non tulit hanc speciem 

 furiata mente Choroebus, Virg. En. 2, 407. (3.) Speciem ac formam similem 

 gent ejus imago, Liter. 4, 49. (4.) Moveri falsa visione, et specie doloris, 

 Cic. Tuse. 2, 18. Praeter speciem alienae fungendae vicis suas opes firmavit, 

 Liv. (5.) } Seeuritas specie Llanda, reipsa repudianda, Cic. de Amic. 13. 

 (6.) Non prius hostem destitit insequi, quam species barbaree mulieris human! 

 amplior, victorem tendere ultra sermone Latino prohibuisset, Suet. Claud. 1. 

 Sibi quoque eandem speciem aliquot jam noctibus observari retulit, Id. ib. 37. 

 Species Homeri, Lucr. 1, 125. (7.) Ex sere species vetus, ap. Cic. Div. 1, 

 12. Est aurigae species Vertumnus, Prop. 4, 2, 35. (8.) Hanc speciem 

 Hbertatis esse, si omnibus, quod quisque vellet, legibus experiri liceret, Nep. 

 Timol. sub Jin. (9.) Liv. 35, 49. ( 10.) X Cum genere idem sit, fit aliud, quod 

 quadam parte et specie differat, Cic. de Inv. 1, 27. K In universum, Tac. 

 Germ. 5. (11.) Luna potest majus lumen convert ere nobis ad speciem, 

 Luc. 5, 704. (12.) Curabis ut specierum vis omne corpus inficiat, Pall. Octal- 

 tit. 14. (13.) Arcad. (14.) Litt. ex Macr. (15.) Capit. (16.) Lampr. 



* L'analyse ne proure que le fer chromate est une espece, que parce qu'elle 

 y trouve constamment les me'mes principes. Done il n'y a que 1'analyse qui 

 determine les especes. Done toute substance, cristallise'e ou non, dont 1'analyse 



