This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...excursion to the coast of Sussex was made in June, 1754, in which he enjoyed the assistance of Ehret, who was both a skilful botanist and artist. The fruits of this expedition appeared in the 48th vol. of the Transactions of the Royal Society, in the form of various letters to the well-known naturalist, Peter Collison. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...excursion to the coast of Sussex was made in June, 1754, in which he enjoyed the assistance of Ehret, who was both a skilful botanist and artist. The fruits of this expedition appeared in the 48th vol. of the Transactions of the Royal Society, in the form of various letters to the well-known naturalist, Peter Collison. Another expedition, to the north coast of Kent, was undertaken in the autumn of the same year, along with (Eder, a distinguished Danish botanist; and many important points were determined regarding the mode of propagation among corallines. The result of all his investigations on the subject was laid before the public in 1755, in his Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines, and other Marine Productions of the like Kind, commonly found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland; a work which has established his character as an accurate and philosophical observer, and has been the source of nearly all our knowledge respecting these productions almost to the present day. Whatever occurred to him subsequently to the publication of this work, as further illustrative of the subject, was communicated to the Royal Society, and will be found in their Transactions. His opinions respecting the animality of corallines, although founded on such demonstrable facts, were very far from meeting with universal concurrence. Some of the principal naturalists of the day opposed them; Dr. Job Baster, if not the most able, was one of the most violent, of his combatants; Pallas, sir John Hill, and many others, adhered to the old opinion. Even Linnseus, his frequent correspondent, adopted his views in a very modified sense, --regardingthe natural productions in question as partly of a vegetable and partly of an animal nature; vegetables with respect to their ..
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