Xil CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF PLANTS. 



PAGE 



The life of De CandoUe— The Natural System ... 98 

 CHAPTER VI. 



HEROES OF ZOOLOGY. 



The nature of the science of zoology — Great zoologists usually 

 botanists also — Aristoteles as a zoologist — Plinius — The 

 long age of no progress — The life of Conrad Gesner — 

 The zoology of Ray and Willughby — Swammerdam — 

 Reaumur — The zoology of Linnseus . . . .122 



CHAPTER Vn. 



THE LIVES OF BUFFON, PENNANT, AND LAMARCK. 



The popular writings of Buffon, and his life — Pennant's life — 

 Lamarck and his life — The rise of popular natural history, 

 and of exact descriptions and philosophical zoology . 144 



CHAPTER Vni. 



THE LIFE OF CUVIER. 



The union of zoology and comparative anatomy, and the 



examination and study of fossil remains . . . .178 



CHAPTER IX. 



HEROES OF GEOLOGY. 



The rise of the science which treats of the ancient history of 

 the earth — Students of the present changes which are the 

 examples by which the past may be comprehended— The 

 Greeks — The life of Pythagoras ; a notice of the geology 

 of Aristoteles — Strabo's life — The nature of fossils and 

 the life of Steno 209 



