New Edition, entirely reset, with an Introduction by Marcus Hartog, M.A., D.SC., F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Pro- fessor of Zoology in University College, Cork. “As this paper contains nothing which deserves the name either of experiment or discovery, and as it is, in fact, destitute of every species of merit, we should have allowed it to pass among the multitude of those articles which must always find their way into the collections of a society which is pledged to publish two or three volumes every year. . . . We wish to raise our feeble voice against innovations, that can have no other effect than to check the progress of science, and renew all those wild phantoms of the imagination which Bacon an…
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