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lity as any other. It produced, as we have 

 already seen in Ray, the first writer who 

 adopted anything like a rational system, and 

 to whom Linnaeus has been very deeply in- 

 debted. The first observer, with whom the 

 physiological part of Zoology might be said 

 to have commenced, was our countryman the 

 immortal Harvey. He was the first opposer of 

 the doctrine of equivocal generation, and his 

 maxim of " omnia ex ovo" encountered almost 

 as many dissenting voices at first, as did his 

 subsequent glorious discovery of the circu- 

 lation of the blood. Need we do more than 

 mention the names of Edwards, of Shaw the 

 traveller, of Pennant, and of Hunter, not to 

 name the meritorious existing cultivators of the 

 science ? 



Our travellers have highly distinguished 

 themselves in supplying materials for this 

 department of knowledge. Bruce, Cook, Fos- 

 ter, who, though not an Englishman, may be 

 in some sort regarded as belonging to us ; 

 Garden, who was a correspondent of Linnaeus ; 

 Grew, principally however celebrated for his 

 discoveries in vegetable physiology ; Latham, 

 who so enriched ornithology, with new species ; 

 Lister whose work on Conchology, contains a 

 great number of valuable plates, and whose 



