The natural history of British butterflies. Illustrated by thirty-six plates; with memoir and portrait of Werner / By James Duncan, M.W.S.

  • James Duncan
Date:
1835
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Credit: The natural history of British butterflies. Illustrated by thirty-six plates; with memoir and portrait of Werner / By James Duncan, M.W.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whither be had gone in the hope of some alleviation of his sufferings. It seems as if fortune had brought him to this ca- pital, that he might there receive the most solemn honours. ‘The most illustrious persons in the king- dom assisted at his obsequies. M. Beettiger, a dis- tinguished philosopher, publicly pronounced his fu- neral oration. The most celebrated academies of Germany have already paid him the same tribute which we this day render to him, and which will be decreed to him, under one form or other, in every quarter of the world where any branch of the science of the Earth is cultivated. ACCOUNT OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. [From Blackwood’s Magazine for June 1817. ] To determine the utility of Natural History, it is scarcely necessary to do more than to enumerate its various branches by which it will be seen in its most convincing form, In truth the correctness of this ypinion requires no proof, since the general attention which has, within a few years, been excited to the study of every departinent of natural knowledge, must have rendered every illustration that can be offered perfectly familiar to our readers. This be-—
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