Magazine of Zoology and Botany - 2 Author:George Johnston Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: W.H. Lizars Subjects: Zoology Botany Natural history Nature / General Nature / Plants Science / Life Sciences / Botany Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. ... more »It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. -- Cheloniorum Tabula Analytica. Auctore Carolo L. BoNaparte, Muxiniani Princip. Qui primus forte omnium ostenderam posse Testudines, Testudi- nina a me ipso appellatas, major! proprietate distingui, non intuitu articulationis amplius testarum, sed potius connexionis ; intereaque nonnulla tune mihi perspicua genera definivi, ac caetera omnino sta- tuenda fore praefatus sum ; mine integrum Cheloniorum ordinem complecti quasi ex contractu debere, et quae descripseram confirmare, et quidquid recentiores Erpetologi de Testudinibus tradunt colligere judico. Nemo vero sanus opellam hanc meam alienis veluti flosculis simpliciter intertextam reprehendet; cum enim hie Reptilium stipes in Galliis non minus quam in Britannia ac Germania celebretur adeo, ut viri doctissimi Grayus, Bellus, Waglerus, Dumerilus cum Bibrorio, et Fitzingerus praecipue sedulam illi operam navent; nefas mihi fo- ret ab eorum sapientia desciscere, eorumdem imo doctrinas non con- sectari. Idcirco diurna nocturnaque manu illorum scripta versando non pauca decerpsi characterum rudimenta ad genera melius singula- tim decernenda omnia ; quamobrem vocabula etiam nonnulla quae sa- pientes illi protulere de suo, non casu aliquo sed libens volensque de- dita opera arripui quoties uni eidemque rei significandae iuservirent. Cui properando operi tabellam tantum de more analytical)! sine ullo verborum apparatu ad usum literariarum ephemeridum maturav...« less