LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 



Karl Ernst von Baer - - - - Frontispiece 



Figure from Fuchs' " Historia Stirpium " - - 8 



Leon HARD Fuchs ------ io 



Comparative Figures of Skeletons of Man and 

 Bird, from Belon's Book of Birds - - - 14, 15 



Marcello Malpighi ------ 31 



Antony van Leeuweniioek - - - - 33 



John Ray ------- 42 



Carolus Linn^us ---•"- 53 



Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - - 65 



Georges Cuvier ------ 99 



