The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 27: Mammalia; Monkeys (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Ir is' a remarkable circumstance, that among the many naturalists whose names at this period are re. Membered from the high reputation of their works, comparatively few, had their minds early directed by their parents or guardians to the study of this science. And by many, it was not commenced before a somewhat advanced age. The illustrious naturalist whom we have chosen for the subject of the present memoir, is an instance among many others and although he was fortunate in procuring an education of the most liberal kind, which embraced in its range polite literature and the sciences, and was extended by means of foreign travel and the companionship of polished minds, he had passed his thirtieth year before designing the plan of his extensive works on nature, and the first branches of the animal kingdom.
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