Tracts on the nature of animals and vegetables.

  • Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Tracts on the nature of animals and vegetables. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ters, and negleCting to remark it in his work, or to typographical error. Animal Reproductions are not fo general- ly known in Britain as they ought to be. M. Bonnet’s treatife upon the reproduction of the head of the fnail, is more concife than any I have hitherto feen. Signor Spallanzani (befides his Prodromo) has publilhed two me- moirs, Sopra la riproduzivne della tejla neile lumache terrejlri, which would with more propriety have formed a part of this volume : but I am not fo entirely mafter of my own time, as the fuperintendance of publifhing two or three hundred pages additional would re- quire. Both memoirs are highly -worthy of perufal. Upon the merits of this tranflation, it be- comes me to be filent. An anatomift will fee where the words axilla, cubitus, and radius, might have been fuccefsfully ufed. Perhaps, there is not a greater impediment to the dilfufion of fcience, than the multiplicity of technical terms, and the variety of nomenclature: yet all are of infinite ufe, when acquir- ed. In fome paflages, I confefs, I have not been able to afcertain the authors’ meaning wirh