Monographers, come from whence they may, have, I thinh, fair pretence to challenge some 
regard and approbation from the lovers of Natural History; for as no man can alone investigate all 
the works of Nature, these partial writers may each in his department be more accurate in their 
discoveries and freer from errors than more general writers, and so by degrees may pave the way 
to an universal correct Natural History . — Gilbert White. 
