Monographers, come from whence they may, have, I think, fair pretence to challenge some regard and approbation from 

 the lovers of Natural History ; for as no man can alone investigate all the works of Nature, these partial writers may each 

 in his department be more accurate in their discoveries and freer from errors than more general writers, and so by degrees 

 may pave the way to a universal correct Natural History. GILBERT WHITE. 



