SECTION III. SOME EARLY ENGLISH NATUR- 

 ALISTS AND A CONTEMPORARY FRENCH 

 AGRICULTURIST 



WILLIAM TURNER 

 1510?-1568 



Libellus de re herbaria novus. 4to. Lond. 1538. Reprinted in facsimile, 

 with notes and life, by B. Daydon Jackson, 1877. 



Avium prsecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, 

 brevis et suceincta historia. 8vo. Coloniae, 1544. English translation by 

 A. H. Evans. 8vo. Camb. 1903. 



A New Herball, etc., Fol. Lond. 1551. The second part. Fol. Collen 

 (Cologne). 1562. The third part. Fol. Lond. 1568. 



Englishmen took no part in the revival of botany and 

 zoology, any more than in the invention of printing, 

 engraving and other useful arts, but were during many 

 years content to imitate as well as they could the 

 example of more advanced countries. Such backward- 

 ness might be attributed to intellectual apathy, were it 

 not for the great things accomplished by Englishmen in 

 the same age. The maintenance of the first place 

 among the Protestant powers, the establishment of a 

 maritime strength able to contend with Spain in all 

 seas, and the glorious Elizabethan literature sufficiently 

 attest the vigour of our forefathers during that memor- 

 able time. 



At last Englishmen began, one by one, to study the 

 natural productions of their own country. It was long 



