CONTENTS. 



LECTURE I. 



INTRODUCTORY TO THE COURSE DELIVERED IN 1817. 



Reply to the Charges of Mr. Ahernethy. — Modern History and 

 Progress of Comparative Anatomy. 



Page 



Reply, &c 1 



Modern History of Comparative Anatomy 14 



National Prejudices to be disregarded in Science — 



Dissections of the French Academicians 16 



BuFFON and Daubenton 17 



Camper 19 



Pallas ^0 



J. Hunter ^23 



Recent German Zoologists ; Blumenbach, Rudolphi, 



TiLEsius, Spix, Tiedemann 25 



CuviER 27 



LECT. H. 



INTRODUCTORY TO THE COURSE OF 1818. 



The Cultivation of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy recom- 

 mended as Branches of General Knowledge, and as an interesting 

 Department of Philosophy — Their Relation to various Questions 

 in General Philosophy, exemplified in the Gradations of Or^ 

 ganization, and the Doctrine of Final Causes — Examples of the 

 Aid they are capable of affording to Geology and the Physical 

 History of the Globe — Their Importance to Physiology , and con- 

 sequently to the Scientific Study of Medicine — Objects of Inquiry 



