An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish].

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1787
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    fore conclude with obferving, that in the ftudy of Zoology the fubjedt of Comparative Anatomy deferves parti¬ cular attention ; and as it is intimately connected with general Phyfiology, it becomes the more immediate objedt of medical men. The little work of Dr. Monro, as an elementary fyftem, is the beft with which I am acquainted. It is, however, to be regretted, that we have no tranflations of feveral ufe- ful works in the German language. There is one author in particular which I would recommend to the fludy of thofe who are able to perufe it: It is the work of Profellbr J. C. P# Erxleben, publiflied at Gottingen in 1768, and contains the moil fcientific view of the three kingdoms of Nature with which I am acquainted. It is matter of no fmall regret to me that I did not meet with it fooner. But I am ready to acknowledge my obliga¬ tions for the information which I have borrowed