A history of British quadrupeds / [William Macgillivray].

  • William MacGillivray
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[1845-1846]
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Credit: A history of British quadrupeds / [William Macgillivray]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his day. Nor are these mere sounding words. Much confirmatory of what we advance remains to be noticed as we proceed, and the utmost we can say may be at once corroborated by a few ad- ditional statements. Our Naturalist finally be- queathed his vast store of scientific treasures to the Senate of Bologna, and by this distinguished body it was made the splendid foundation of the great public Museum of that city, where many of the preparations remain to this day. And not less to the point—the vast collection of paintings which Aldrovandi accumulated were thought worthy, so late as during the splendid but despotic rule of Napoleon, of being removed from the venerable halls they had for centuries graced, to Paris, where they were deposited in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes. At the peace of 1814, right and jus- tice resumed their sway; when these remarkable works would, we presume, be restored to their ap- propriate place, under the custody of the citizens of Bologna. To this, we may add, that the prodigious mass of valuable manuscripts which our Naturalist left behind him were preserved, and are still to be seen, in the Public Library of his native city. Among these would probably be found his corre- spondence with the most illustrious men of his day; but we have not been able to detect a single trace of these most interesting memorials in any of the accounts of this distinguished man which have yet been given to the world. In fact, we desiderate nothing more in the meagre
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