Author: William E. Horner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781396143380

Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course 1841-2: Delivered in the Anatomical Theatre of the University of Pennsylvania, Thursday, November 4, 1841 In examining a vast field strewed with its vegetable pro ductions, its trees, its shrubbery, its flowers, and with its varied animals: the multitude of its Objects and their indis criminate mixture, would bewilder at the first inspection any mind not instructed in natural history and in botany. The process for removing this feeling of confusion, and such as is almost unconsciously adopted, is to begin to group, accord ing to the most striking similitudes. The quadrupeds are put into one group, the birds into another, the trees into a third, the shrubbery into a fourth, and so on. If the Objects continue to allure us, a more familiar acquaintance leads to remarking more minute resemblances and distinctions, so that we proceed to form other divisions and sub-divisions, and thus arrive at length at a' natural and minute classification of every thing which presented itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.