GERM DOCTRINE OF BONNET. 243 



The Corps Organists, the Contemplation, and the PalingMsie 

 are the three works of chief interest to us. 



The first outline of Bonnet's theory was laid down in manu- 

 script in 1747-1749 (?), as an introduction to the Contempla- 

 tion. It was detached from this work and published in 1762, 

 as the first eight chapters of the Corps Organists. The 7th 

 and 8th chapters are mainly devoted to an examination of Buf- 

 fon's views, and appear to have been written immediately after 

 the second volume of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle fell into 

 the author's hands, presumably in 1749. The composition of 

 the rest of the Corps Organises was begun in September, 1759, 

 immediately after the completion of the Essai Analytique, and 

 shortly after the appearance of Haller's memoirs on the devel- 

 opment of the chick (1758), and completed in 1762. The 

 body of the work is thus separated from the introductory chap- 

 ters by an interval of from twelve to fifteen years. Nearly 

 twenty years later (1779) the third and final edition was pub- 

 lished, containing many supplementary observations in the 

 form of footnotes, together with numerous references, inserted 

 for the benefit of the reader who might wish to consult what 

 the author had written at different times and places on special 

 subjects. 



Bonnet warns the reader (Preface, p. xvi) not to judge this 

 work by the first eight chapters, which he describes (footnote, 

 p. 29) as "only a feeble outline drawn with a hand little 



V. Merits sur divers Sujets (T Histoire Naturelle, 1781. Contains Memoir on 

 Germs, memoirs published in Rozier's Journal, and new memoirs on Bees, 

 Regeneration in the Snail and the Salamander, and (in Part II) Letters to 

 Spallanzani and to others. 



VI. Essai Analytique sur les Facultts de VAme, 40, Copenhagen, 1760 ; re- 

 printed in 80, 1769; revised 1782. 



VII. Palingenesis Philosophique, 2 vols., 8, Geneva, 1769; reprinted 1770, 

 revised 1783. Contains as an introduction the Analyse abregte de f 'Essai 

 Analytique, the Tableau des Considerations, and the Application des Princi- 

 pes Psychologiques. 



VIII. Essai de Psychologie et Ecrits Divers, 1783. This Essai appeared first at 

 Leyden in 1754. It is followed by Principes Philosophiques sur la Cause 

 Premiere, Leibnitz sur la Survivance de r Animal and other topics, Pomes 

 Xatnrelles de nos Connaissances, Remarque* sur la Libertt, Observations stir 

 les Miracles, rOrigine du Mai, Philalethe, etc. 



