Volume 1

[The natural history of British fishes] / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
[1843]
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Credit: [The natural history of British fishes] / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but, living widely apart from each other, they seem to have had little or no intercourse or correspond- ence on the subject of their common studies.— These works present several features of much in- terest, and have not only exercised considerable influence on the past state of Ichthyology, but may be consulted with advantage even by the naturalist of the present day, when, it might have been sup- posed, every thing of value relating to such subjects in writings of early date would have been transfused into our own, and become part of the actually cur- rent stream of knowledge. A Memoir of Salviani has been prefixed to one of our former volumes on Ichthyology, and we now proceed to give a similar notice of his still more illustrious cotemporary, Rondelet, who although he may be unknown even by name to some of our readers, was declared by the most learned men of his day, in a formal in- scription on the front of the College of Montpellier recording his merits, to have been “ ingenii foecun- ditate, et doctrinal uberitate, toto orbe clarissimus.” William Rondelet was born at Montpellier, a city which has produced so many men of eminence, on the 27th September, 1507- His father, John Rondelet, was an apothecary in Montpellier. His mother’s name was Jane Renalde de Monceau. He appears to have been a very delicate child from his birth, and a distressing disorder communicated to him by his nurse, so shattered his constitution, that there was very little prospect of his ever attaining
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