SOME EARLY MICROSCOPISTS 



mur, whose memory is kept green for all time by his 

 thermometer; as a worker upon problems of insect 

 life he was indefatigable; the Swede, Linnaeus, to" 

 whose early efforts we owe the orderly arrangement 

 of living creatures and plants, known as classifica- 

 tion. This arrangement has been considerably 

 modified, more modern ideas have upset much that 

 he initiated, yet he remains the parent of orderly 

 arrangement. 



Buffon, a great naturalist, was followed by Cuvielf', ) 

 the first serious student of fossils; by Humboldt, 

 naturalist and traveller; by Robert Brown, the 

 founder of modern Botany ; by Darwin and by "^ ^ '^^■ 

 Pasteur in turn. How much these men owe to the 

 microscope can never be known; certain it is that 

 without its assistance our world, the world we know 

 and can see, would have been smaller than it isy 

 to-day. 



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