LECTUBE II. S5 



thod or systc m, Diving his elegant, hut too diffuse 

 di -c -i -iptinn* without any regular order tf <i 

 but ion; and having begun his natural history of 

 Qu.ulnijx tls in this manner, lie chose to continue 

 it through tin- \\holi- of his \ilumiitou, work, ex- 

 cept in a few instances, in which he seems to I 

 found the necessity of being systematic even in 

 spite of himself. Not contented with this general 

 neglect of all arrangement in his history of Qua- 

 drupeds, Bufibn seems to have taken a pleasure in 

 endeavouring to depreciate the merit of systematic 

 arrangement in general, and more particularly 

 that of Linnaeus. Linnaeus, however, appears to 

 have been fully conscious of his own superiority, 

 and to have understood the policy as well as the 

 dignity of literature too well, to exalt into cele- 

 brity the petulant remarks of Buffon by conde- 

 scending to answer them. He even carefully ab- 

 st ained from mentioning that author; not a sh 

 quotation from the work of Burton making its ap- 

 ance in the whole course of the twelfth edition 

 of the Systema Naturae of Linnaeus. A cl 

 which is very properly remedied in the enlarged 

 edition of that work by Dr. Gmelin. 



The whole class of Mammalia is divided bv 



