AN ESSAY 



OX THE 



STUDY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



BEING AN 



INTRODUCTORY LECTURE 



DELIVERED IN 



THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 



ON THE 23RD OF OCTOBER, 1828 



BY ROBERT E. GRANT, M.D. 



Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 

 Fellow of the Linna-an and Zoological Societies of London ; Member of the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society, and of the Medico-Chirurgical So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh ; Late President of the Royal Medical Society of 

 Edinburgh; Honorary Memberof the Northern Institution ot 

 Inverness and of the Plinian Natural History Society of 



Edinburgh ; and 



PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND ZOOLOGY IN THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 



SECOND EDITION. 



LONDON: 

 PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR, 



Bookseller and Publisher to the University of London, 

 30, UPPER GOWER STREET. 



1829. 



