It is hoped that the reader will see Buffon, much us Buffon saw the learned Aldrovandus. He should see him going into his library, &c., and quietly chuckling to himself as he wrote such a passage as the one in which we lately found him saying that the larger animals had "especially" the same generic forms as they had always had. And the reader should probably see Daubenton chuckling also.
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[39] Tom. i. p. 24, 1749.
[40] Tom. i. p. 40, 1749.
[41] Vol. i. p. 34, 1749.
[42] Tom. i. p. 36.
[43] See p. [88] of this volume; see also p. [155], and [164].
[44] Tom. i. p. 33.
[45] 'The Naturalist's Library,' vol. ii. p. 23, Edinburgh, 1843.
[46] Tom. iv. p. 381, 1753.