CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. ix 



PASE 



Sect. 3. Stationary Interval 321 



Sect. 4. Sequel to the Epoch of Caesalpinus. Further Form- 

 ation and Adoption of Systematic Arrangement 328 



CHAPTER IV. THE REFORM OF LINNAEUS. 



Sect. 1. Introduction of the Reform .... 337 



Sect. 2. Linnaean Reform of Botanical Terminology . 340 



Sect. 3. Nomenclature . 344 



Sect. 4. Liunasus's Artificial System .... 350 



Sect. 5. Views on a Natural Method . . 353 



Sect. 6. Reception and Diffusion of the Linneean Reform 360 



CHAPTER V. PROGRESS TOWARDS A NATURAL SYSTEM OF 



BOTANY .... 366 



CHAPTER VI. THE PROGRESS OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY . 378 



CHAPTER VII. THE PROGRESS OF ICHTHYOLOGY . . 391 



Period of Unsystematic Knowledge .... 392 



Period of Erudition 394 



Period of Accumulation of Materials. Exotic Collections 395 

 Epoch of the Fixation of Characters. Ray and Willoughby 395 

 Improvement of the System. Artedi .... 397 

 Separation of the Artificial and Natural Methods in Ich- 

 thyology ........ 402 



ORGAN 1C AL SCIENCES. 

 BOOK XVII. 



HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE 



ANATOMY. 

 Introduction . . . . . . . . .417 



CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY OF THE ORGANS OF VOLUNTARY 



MOTION 



Sect. 1. Knowledge of Galen and his Predecessors . 423 



Sect. 2. Recognition of Final Causes in Physiology. Galen 430 



CHAPTER II. DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 

 Sect. 1. Prelude to the Discovery ..... 434 

 Sect. 2. The Discovery of the Circulation mane by Harvey 438 

 Sect. 3. Reception of the Discovery .... 440 

 Sect. 4. Bearing of the Discovery on the Progress of Phy- 

 siology. 442 



