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period is Edward Forbes, who may be selected for a 

 longer notice. 



As regards 'general zoology,' this period produced a 

 number of able workers. No one, perhaps, contributed 

 more largely to the diffusion of a knowledge of, and a taste 

 for, natural history than the well-known Dumfriesshire 

 baronet, Sir William Jardine, who united to a wide general 

 knowledge of natural history and of geology a special 

 acquaintance with ornithology. Sir William is probably 

 best known as the editor of that excellent and popular 

 work the 'Naturalists' Library,' of which more than one 

 edition was published. This work consists of forty 

 volumes, dealing with Mammals, birds, fishes, and insects, 

 and illustrated with spirited figures, drawn and engraved 

 by Lizars. Sir William Jardine was also joint-editor, 

 along with Mr Selby and Dr Johnston, of the ' Magazine 

 of Zoology and Botany,' of which only two volumes 

 appeared (in 1837 and 1838); when it became merged 

 in one of the most admirable of our existing zoological 

 periodicals namely, the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' affectionately known to its readers by the 

 abbreviated name of the ' Annals and Mag.' 



The only general work treating of the whole of the 

 animals of the British area, which appeared during this 

 period, was the 'History of British Animals,' by the 

 Rev. John Fleming, D.D., who was one time minister 

 of Flisk in Fifeshire, and subsequently professor of natural 

 philosophy in King's College, Aberdeen (from 1834 to 

 1845). This work was published in 1828, in one volume, 

 and dealt systematically with all known British animals 

 a gigantic task for one man, even at that time, and an 



