Catalogue of the works in medicine and natural history contained in the Radcliffe Library.

  • Williams G.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Catalogue of the works in medicine and natural history contained in the Radcliffe Library. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    name only has been given, as being even more forcibly de- scriptive than any addition could make it. No other appella- tion need be added, it may be presumed, to the name of Linnaeus, Buffon, or Cuvier. With respect to books which are either extensively known, or are to be found in most large libraries of natural history, no further description has been given than was considered just sufficient to verify their existence in the collection: but with respect to books which are at the same time of rare occurrence, and of intrinsic value from the character of their contents, in addition to the general description has been occasionally sub- joined a short account of the plates, &c. contained in them. On such occasions, where Zoology is the subject-matter, the classification of the “ Regne Animal” of Cuvier has been prin- cipally adopted; substituting however, usually, a Latin in- stead of a French nomenclature; and sometimes employing equivalent instead of identical terms, as “ Accipitres” for “ Oi- seaux de prole,” and “ Grallae” for “ Echassiers.” In books to which the author’s name is not added, or which are the production of a Collective Society, the initial letter of that appellation by which the book is most commonly known, or of the most characteristic term of the whole title, has deter- mined its alphabetical position in the Catalogue. Thus the Transactions of the Royal Society of London, being most fami- liarly known under the name of the “ Philosophical 1 ransac- tions,” are noticed under the initial letter of that term : but the Transactions of the Philosophical Societies of Cambridge or Manchester are noticed respectively under the initials ot those places. Where the title of a work has been thought too long and diffuse, it has been compressed; and in some instances the