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vated with considerable success, and received some 

 important accessions, as will appear from the 

 names of several naturalists hereafter to be men- 

 tioned. But the service rendered to this depart- 

 ment of science by the illustrious Swede was still 

 more in}i)ortant, and cannot be contemplated with- 

 out admiration. He described many new animals^ 

 and formed a new arrangement and nomenclature, 

 in man}' respects original, and in general greatly 

 superior to any that had gone before him. From 

 this period writers on the various departments of 

 the animal kingdom began rapidly to increase in 

 number, in the extent of their information, and ift 

 the accurate and philosophical aspect of their de- 

 scriptions. 



Soon after Linnaeus appeared M. Klein, of Dant- 

 zic, who strenuously combated a number of the 

 alterations proposed by that illustrious naturalist, 

 and signalised himself as his adversary. . Klein 

 gave to the w^orld'a new method of classification,, 

 founded on the toes, hoofs, &c. ; and by his multi- 

 farious works, on almost every department of 

 zoology, which he treated both systematically and 

 physiologically, rendered very important service to 

 the science. About the same time flourished M. 

 Brisson, a French naturalist of very high character, 

 and whose publications, particularly on Q^uadru- 

 peds and Birds, rank in the first class on their re- 

 spective subjects. Indeed, in the accuracy of his 



was born at Roeshult, a village of Sweden, May 27, 1707. His 

 first great vork was published in 1732. Among the numerous 

 public lu^nours with which he was crowned, he was created 

 kniglit of the Polar Star in 1753, and ennobled in 1757. He died 

 in January, 1778, in the 7 1st year of his age. 



