D) ZOOLOGY. 
without it. The former comprehends the (A) Verresrara, and the latter 
the (B) Everresrata of later authors. These are subdivided as follows: 
A. 
Animals which are Viviparous, - - - - Mamata. 
- ‘6 6 OviraRots, . 
with four feet, = - - - Reprizes. 
with two feet and wings, -  Brrps. 
without feet, - - - SERPENTS. 
with fins, - : - - Fisues. 
B. 
Animals without shells, —- 5 ah 2 - - Worms. 
$s with a soft shell, - - - - - CRABS. 
is with a calcareous shell, : - - SNAILS. 
ag with an articulate body, . ie, 0S Eysiena: 
Pury the elder, nearly four hundred years later, compiled an extensive 
work on natural history, but without offering a system, or adding any 
original matter of scientific value, although the large collections of living 
animals in Rome must have afforded him many facilities for study. 
GALEN paid more attention to the internal structure than to the formation 
of a system; and from his time, A.D. 200, to the fifteenth century nothing 
was done of any account. 
Beton, the reviver of natural history in modern times, was born in 1517, 
and pee travelling three years in Europe, Egypt, Greece, and Asia Minor, 
at the expense of the bishop of Mans and Clermont, and the cardinals of 
Tournon and Lorraine, he returned to Paris in 1550 with a large collection, 
when he published his works. 
RonpELeEtTIus, a medical professor at Montpellier, published a work in 
1554, on Ichthyology ; and another appeared in the same year, upon the 
same subject, by Sarviani, a Roman physician. 
ConraD GESNER, 2 physician born at Zurich, in 1516, published an 
extensive history of animals in 1585. 
Aprovanpt, a professor of Bologna, born in 1525, was the author of 
fourteen folio volumes, published between 1599 and 1640. 
Mourrer’s Theatrum insectorum, the earliest English zoological nie 
was published in 1634. Most of ae authors of this period repeated the 
fables of Pliny, or were deceived by those who sold factitious curiosities, .a 
‘remnant of which still remains in the occasional appearance of a stuffed 
amermaid or impossible fossil. It was not until the appearance of Linnzus 
that natural science was placed upon a permanent basis. Born in Sweden, 
in 1707, he was at first intended for the Church, but subsequently studied 
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