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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Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my work may /till appear imperfect. But I am not without hopes that it may, notwithstanding^ pojfefs fufficient merit for the purpofe to which it is dejigned.—By prefent ing to the young Student a fyftematic view of the moft approved methods, of Jiudying the three kingdoms, or grand ar¬ rangements of Nature5 with the heft authors on each, my Work will be found to comprize a tota¬ lity which is not (is far as I can learn) to be met with in our own language*—I truft, therefore, as a General Introduction, it may have its ufe; and 1 have reajons for its prefent publication [till more urgent. Having engaged in a Courje of LeCtures on Ghemiftry and the Materia Me- die a, I am induced to prefent my pupils with this view of the Method of Studying Natural Hiftory. being fully convinced that no real pro- v \ grefs