CONTENTS, xvii 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



PAGB 



Childhood of Haller — Foundation of the University of Gottingen 

 in 1736 — Haller made Professor of Anatomy — Haller's Ana- 

 tomical Plates — He discovers the poA\er of Contraction of the 

 Muscles — Rise of Comparative Anatomy — ^John Hunter's in- 

 dustry in Dissecting and Comparing the Structures of different 

 Animals — His Museum and the arrangement of his Collection — 

 Bonnet's Experiments on Plants — Experiments upon Animals by 

 Bonnet and Spallanzani — Regrowth of different parts when cut 

 off — Bonnet's theory of Gradual Development of Plants and 

 Animals — Anatomical Works of Haller — He discovers the 

 power of the Muscles to contract . . . . , .195 



CHAPTER XXV. 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED) 



Birth and Early Life of Buffon and Linnaeus compared — Buffon's 

 W6rk on Natural History — Daubenton wrote the Anatomical 

 Part — Buffon's Books very interesting, but not always accurate — 

 He first worked out the Distribution of Animals — Struggles of 

 Linnaeus with Poverty — Mr. Clifford befriends him— He becomes 

 Professor at Upsala — He was the first to give Specific Names to 

 Animals and Plants — Explanation of his Descriptions of Plants 

 — Use of the Linnaean or Artificial System — Afterwards super- 

 seded by the Natural System — Linna;us first used accurate terms 

 in describing Plants and Animals — Character of Linmeus— Sale 

 of his Collection, and Chase by the Swedish Man-of-war . . 204 



CHAPTER XXVL 



SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



The Study of the Earth neglected during the Dark Ages — Preju- 

 dices concerning the Creation of the World — Attempts to Ac- 

 count for Buried Fossils— Palissy, the Potter, first asserted that 

 Fossil-shells were real Shells— Scilla's Work on the Shells of 

 Calabria, 1670 — Woodward's Description of Different Forma- 

 tions, 1695 — Lazzaro Moro one of the first to give a true expla- 



