TAILIEUCHUNG - Fathers of Biology

It is hoped that the account given, in the following pages, of the lives of five great naturalists may not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among students of anatomy and physiology a tendency to imagine that the facts with which they are now being made familiar have all been established by recent observation and experiment. But even the slight knowledge of the history of Biology, which may be obtained from a perusal of this little book, will show that, so far from such being the case,. | Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae 1 FATHERS OF BIOLOGY CHARLES MCRAE Part II. on Poetry p. 314. Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Fathers of Biology Author Charles McRae Release Date January 29 2008 EBook 24456 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FATHERS OF BIOLOGY Produced by Bryan Ness Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. FATHERS OF BIOLOGY BY CHARLES McRAE . . FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF EXETER COLLEGE OXFORD 2 Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae PERCIVAL CO. KING STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON 1890 Transcriber s Note Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic and variant spellings remain as originally printed. Greek text has been transliterated and is shown between braces . The oe ligature is shown as oe . PREFACE. It is hoped that the account given in the following pages of the lives of five great naturalists may not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among students of anatomy and physiology a tendency to imagine that the facts with which they are now being made familiar have all been established by recent observation and experiment. But even the slight knowledge of the history of Biology which may be obtained from a perusal of this little book will show that so far from such being the case this branch of science is of venerable antiquity. And further if in the place of this misconception a desire is aroused in the reader for a .

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