The Epiftle Dedicatory. 



that n>as injlitutedy for the Improvement of Natural 

 Experimental H^hilojophy ^ and you have taJ^n care, to 

 Exprefs your great Zeal and Readinefs, to contribute 

 every thing in your Ton?er^ to TroteB their Interejis, 

 and Tromote their Reputation. And under your Lord" 

 Jhifs enlivening Influence, therein all the Reafon in the 

 World to expeS, that Learning mil again flourifh there, 

 m -well as among other Orders of Men. 



This, my Lord, hasfo embolden d me, humbly to pre- 

 fent this Performance to your Lord/hip. For fnce fo 

 Great a Matron of Letters is rifen in the midjlofus ; 

 TPoe think "^^ have a fort of Right to his Countenance 

 and TroteBion. I wi[h the Trefent I prefume to make 

 you, 'Vs>as more worthy of your Lordfhip : All that lean 

 fay to recommend it, is, that the SubjeB is Novel , and 

 that Care has been tal^en to give it a jujl T)efcription • 

 TUfhich, I may fay, mthout vanity, never yet appeared in 

 Tublic{, 



^Tis a true Remark^, which n^e cannot ma^e without 

 Admiration{rhat from Minerals, to Tlants-^fromTlants, 

 to Animals-^ and from Animals, to Men ^ the T^ranfition 

 is Jo gradual, that there appears a very great Simili^ 

 tude, as ivell between the meanejl Tlant, and/ome Mi- 

 nerals ^ as between the lowefi Rank of Men, and the 

 highejl kind of Animals. The Animal of which I have 

 given the Anatomy, coming nearefl to Mankind -Jeems 

 the Nexus of the Animal and Rational , as your Lord" 

 fhip^and thofe of your High Rank^and Order for Know-^ 



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