A manual of the elements of natural history / By I. F. Blumenbach ... Translated from the tenth German edition, by R. T. Gore.

  • Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840.
Date:
1825
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    transitions ; as in one instance out of many, that between organized bodies and minerals. If this suppositious gradation in Nature is to be considered as defective, equally groundless is the idea advanced by some Physico-Theologians, that if one link of their hypothetical chain should be lost, the whole course of the Universe would be interrupted, &c. But as whole species of animals have been exterminated in large islands (wolves, for instance, in Eng- land), without any interruption of the completeness or con- nexion of the remaining Creation in those spots; so also, others may disappear from the entire surface of the globe, (as seems to have happened in many cases already, the dodo, didus ineptus, for instance,) without any disturbance in the regular and eternal unity of the Creation succeeding to this evident hiatus in the physico-theological chain. List of Authorities and Sources of Reference for Natural History in General. Aristoteles. (Lived about 400 years B. C.) Ej. Opeia, Grcec.-Lat. ex. Ed. Gu. Duval, Paris iis 1654. 4 Vols. fob (particularly in the 2d Vol.) C. Plinius Secundus. (Died anno 79, A. C.) Ej. Historia Mundi. Lib. lxxxvii. Two correct Editions are the Elzevir, at Leyden, 1635. 3 Vols. 12mo., and that of Deux-ponts, 1783, 5 Vols. 8vo. Conrad Gesner. (Died in 1562.) John Ray. (Died in 1705.) The principal works on this subject, by these two writers, are quoted elsewhere. C.VonLinne. (Died 1778.) Ej. Systerna Natures. Edit. 12mo. Holm. 1766. 4 Vols. 8vo., and the two Mantissse appended to it. Ib. 1767- Svo. Edit. 13ma aucta, reformata cur&, J. F. Gmelin, Lips. 1 / 99. 9 Vols. Svo. And for the explanation of the language of the Linnean sys- stem, J. Reinh Forster. Enchiridion Histories Naturali inser- viens. Flail. 1788. 8vo. J. R. W. Illigers’ Versuch einer Systematischen vollstandigen Terminologie fur das Thierreich und Pjlanzcnreich. Helmstadt, 1800. Svo. (Essay towards a General Systematic Terminology of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms.)