THE HISTORY OF ANATOMICAL SCIENCE 281 
Zoologists who knew and could properly apply 
every technical term of the systema uahiriB with- 
out the least real acquaintance with animal 
structure in general, or with that of any single 
animal in particular, were not to his mind. He 
occupied himself, therefore, with the production 
of the series of admirable monographs appended 
to the descriptions of Buffon in the ‘ Histoire 
Naturelle.’ ^ 
The effect of the co-operation of many zealous 
workers, along the first of these lines, culminated 
in the ‘ Anatomie Compar6e’ of Cuvier; while, to 
the followers of the second method, we owe a 
host of monographs upon species, or groups of 
species, belonging to all the divisions of the 
animal kingdom. In virtue of these labours it 
came about that, by the year 1830, the province 
of anatomy had been systematically and, in many 
regions, minutely surveyed. An adequate, though 
far from complete, knowledge of all the higher 
forms had been attained ; and, with the improve- 
ment of the microscope, the structural characters 
of the very lowest forms were beginning to be 
elucidated. 
Thus, the foundations of anatomical science 
in accurately recorded observations of structure 
It is very much to be re- a history of even the little group 
gretted that his example has of British Mammals up to the 
not been more largely followed level of the work of Buffon and 
for the commoner animals. We Daubenton, now nearly a cen- 
do not possess, at this moment, tury and a half old. 
