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that it is not Aldrovandi's, and speaks of Ovid. 

 Montalbani as the true author. " Get auteur ne 

 se content pas de rapporter tout ce qu' il en a lu," 

 &c. Why, the subject of Botany was that on which 

 our author was more early and more fully prepared 

 than on any other, Botany being the science which 

 he first and for so long taught with the greatest 

 success in the University. The simple statement of 

 these facts refutes the injurious aspersion, and we 

 deem that nothing more, therefore, need be said 

 regarding it. We think it highly probable that the 

 whole matter of the volume, in Aldrovandi's manu- 

 script, would be found at Bologna at the present 

 time. 



In addition to the treatises contained in the thir- 

 teen folios we have thus noticed, and the other works 

 we had occasion to mention, we have observed that 

 a few other treatises proceeded from the pen of 

 Aldrovandi. Some of these are named by Haller ; 

 and Miraeus states, upon the authority of Paulus 

 Mut. (sic,) that he prepared a work for the press, 

 " Upon the Providence of God, as it may be learned 

 from Animals ;" in short, a work on Natural Theo- 

 logy. We do not know whether this treatise ever 

 saw the light. We ought also to mention, that second 

 editions of his Opera were speedily required, show- 

 ing their great popularity, and were published at 

 Francfort, as well as Bologna, with much elegance 

 and care. It is now difficult to procure a uniform 

 edition of his works, and some of them are much 

 -scarcer than others. 



