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and Physiology ; sixthly, Zoology ; seventhly, 

 Travels which were connected with the advance- 

 ment of natural sciences : eidithlv. Medicine and 

 Surgery J ninthly, the Veterinary Art ; and tenthly, 

 Agricidture. From these analyses a just idea 

 may be formed of most of the principal disco- 

 veries made in all these branches of science 

 during the time of M. Cuvier ; for not only did 

 the members and appointed correspondents of 

 the Institute feel it a duty to communicate their 

 endeavours to this body, but many strangers felt 

 a laudable pride in submitting their efforts to 

 those who w^ould be likely to appreciate them. 

 All is described by M. Cuvier in his usually 

 clear and forcible language, " frequently sur- 

 prising even the author himself by the lucidity 

 w*ith which his own ideas and experiments are 

 set forth, and sometimes creating in liim new 

 or different views of the subject which had long 

 occupied his thoughts." * The same fearlessness 

 of rendering justice marked these reports, as 

 well as the other productions of the writer ; and 

 from their impartiality, their truth, and beautiful 

 unity, they might have been supposed rather to 

 have related to times long past, than to have been 



* Dr. Duvernoy. 

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