A history of British quadrupeds / [William Macgillivray].

  • MacGillivray, William, 1796-1852
Date:
[1838]
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Credit: A history of British quadrupeds / [William Macgillivray]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF ULYSSES ALDROVANDI. At the close of that long and dreary period so well known under the characteristic appellation of the dark ages, it was to be presumed that the Science of Natural History would not be the last to ensure a cordial and efficient entertainment, in that hap- pier and brighter era which then dawned upon our race. The high character of the great Stagyrite and of the elder Pliny, and their numerous and im- portant writings, embellished with literary attractions of the highest order, all tended to enhance the in- herent interest of that fascinating pursuit, which had been to these great men the grand object of their thoughts, of their adventurous travels, and of their chequered lives. When to the interest thus confer- red upon the subject, we add the numerous and varied fields of investigation it embraced, and con- VOL. VII. B