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CHAPTER XXV. 

 SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



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Birth and Early Life of Buff on and Linnaeus compared Buffon's 

 Work on Natural History Daubenton wrote the Anatomical 

 Part Buffon's Books very interesting, but not always accurate 

 He first worked out the Distribution of Animals Struggles 

 of Linnaeus with Poverty Mr. Clifford befriends him He 

 becomes Professor at Upsala He was the first to give Specific 

 Names to Animals and Plants Explanation of his Descriptions 

 of Plants Use of the Linnaean or Artificial System After- 

 wards superseded by the Natural System Linnaeus first used 

 accurate terms in describing Plants and Animals Character 

 of Linnaeus Sale of his Collection, and Chase by the Swedish 

 Man-of-war *. 203 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



The Study of the Earth neglected during the Dark Ages Preju- 

 dices concerning the Creation of the World Attempts to Ac- 

 count for Buried Fossils Palissy, the Potter, first asserted 

 that Fossil-shells were real Shells Scillas Work on the Shells 

 of Calabria, 1670 Woodward's Description of Different For- 

 mations, 1695 Lazzaro Moro one of the first to give a true 

 explanation of the facts Abraham Werner lectures on Miner- 

 alogy and Geology, 1775 Disputes between the Neptunists 

 and Vulcanists Dr. Hutton first teaches that it is by the Study . 

 of the Present that we can understand the Past Theory of 

 Hutton Sir J. Hall's Experiments upon Melted Rocks 

 Hutton discovers Granite Veins in Glen Tilt William Smith, 

 the ' Father of English Geologists ' His Geological Map of 

 England . . . . . . . .213 



