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in general, and of comparative anatomy in particular, to 

 designate any individual to whom the modern progress of 

 these sciences have been principally owing, I cannot doubt 

 that the naturalists of Europe would pronounce an unani- 

 mous verdict for Cuvier. Yet perhaps they would not 

 like to come to a decision in such a question, and would 

 prefer returning a special statement, that should satisfy the 

 claims of all, without conferring an offensive pre-eminence 

 on any one. They might probably pronounce that the 

 French Academicians, that Redi, Valisnieri, Swammer- 

 DAM, Lyonnet, Reaumur, Daubenton, and Haller, 

 had cleared the ground, dug out and laid the foundation 

 of the building; that Camper, Pallas, Hunter, Poli, 

 Blumenbach, and Cuvier, had raised the edifice; — while 

 innumerable other artists, by finishing particular apart- 

 ments, or executing decorations and embellishments, had 

 signally contributed, not only to the commodiousness and 

 comfort, but to the general effect of the whole. 



These great men, though born in different countries, may 

 be considered to have been united as contributors to one 

 common end — the advancement of useful knowledge. In 

 reviewing their labours, let us keep our attention fixed on 

 this object, and not look aside at the national questions, 

 which divide and disturb mankind. We expect from science 

 that it should strengthen feelings of benevolence, and pro- 

 mote acts of charity — not encourage controversy, and inflame 

 national rivalry; that it should draw more closely those bonds 

 which unite men together ; and not add fresh pov/er to the 

 rej)ulsive forces which already separate them too widely. 



Lamarck is republishing in an enlarged form his Natural 

 History of the Invertebral Animals; and has already com- 

 pleted four volumes. 



Savigny has made some very interesting discoveries in 

 the same division of the animal kingdom; and has published 

 them under the modest title of Memoirs on Invertebral 

 Animals ; of which two portions have already appeared. 



Mons. Blainville, who succeeds Cuvier in his lectures 

 at the Jardin des Plantes, in the course of many years 



