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were cultivating. He had able assistants in the 

 use of the pen and the pencil ; and the dissecting 

 knife, not less essential to the Naturalist, was ac- 

 tively employed by himself and others. The names 

 of several of his associates in this department of his 

 labours have been handed down to us, and must not 

 here be omitted. The following list is given by the 

 indefatigable Haller: M. A. Ulmas, J. Buttnerus, 

 J. B. Cortesius, J. C. Arantius, and Coiterus; and 

 we find throughout our author's works due acknow- 

 ledgments made of the labours of these several indi- 

 viduals, in connection with the more important pre- 

 parations. 



One remark we will here hazard ; viz. that in this 

 first of the earlier Naturalists, first in eminence, 

 though not quite in time, we witness not the awk- 

 ward novice of a barbarous age, but one who may 

 well be regarded as a pattern and example to the 

 most accomplished of modern Zoologists. For 

 what man could do more? Whether we regard 

 him in his study, or in the fields, in his Lecture- 

 room, or his Museum, surrounded by his assistants, 

 his amanuenses, and his draughtsmen, or in his 

 travels over various and distant lands in all we see 

 the ardent, the indefatigable student of Nature, and 

 one who could not fail to impart a most powerful 

 impulse to science. In spite of that amour jfropre 

 which leads so many men of every succeeding 

 generation to imagine that they have far outstript 

 their predecessors, we see here the master of most 

 of them the Hunter, the Humboldt, the Cuvier of 



