Xlii PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE 



Mammalia, Audebert's finely illustrated Natural 

 History of Apes and Monkeys, and his Oiseaux 

 Dores, and the labours of the elder Gmelin, 

 who, like Pallas, travelled in the service of 

 Russia, and whose work is full of excellent and 

 numerous articles on Natural History. Of the 

 edition of the Systema Nature of Linnaeus, 

 by the younger Gmelin, we cannot speak in 

 any terms of praise ; it is a confused and indi- 

 gested performance, got up without knowledge 

 or discrimination. It is, notwithstanding, use- 

 ful, as it contains the only table that is at all 

 complete, of what was done in Zoology to- 

 wards 1790. 



This science has not been cultivated with 

 equal assiduity and success by all the nations 

 of modern Europe. The Swedes and Germans 

 have rather more addicted themselves to bo- 

 any and mineralogy, than to Zoology ; yet 

 both nations, and more especially the latter, 

 have produced most able zoologists, of which, 

 in addition to what we have already said, it is 

 only necessary in this place to mention the 

 names of Illiger and Blumenbach. Our own 

 country, though, at least, for a long period, 

 this science could not boast among us of 

 the general popularity it deserved, has, never- 

 theless, produced zoologists of as great abi- 



