Volume 1

The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1876]
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Credit: The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but, living widely apart from each other, they scemi to have had little or no intercourse or correspond- ence on the subject of tlieir common studies.— Tliese works present several features of much in- terest. and have not. only exercised considerable inflneiuo on the past state of Ichthyology, but may be consulted with advantage even by the naturalist of the ])resent day, when, it might have been .sup- posed, every thing, of value relating to such subjects in wi itincrs of early date would have been transfused O • into our own, and become ])art of the actually cur-^ rent stream of knowledge. A Memoir of Salviani has been ])refixed to one of our former volumes on Ichthyology, and we now proceed to give a similar notice of his still more illustrious cotemporary, llondclet, 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- scrlj)tion on the front of the College of IMontpcllier recording his merits, to have been “ ingenii foecun- ditatc, ct doctrin® uberitate, toto orhe clarissimus.” William Ronderet was bom at Montpellier, a city which has ])roduced so many men of eminence, on the 27th September, 1507. lli« father, John Rondelot, was an apothc<-ary in Montpellier, His mother’s name was Jane Renalde de ]\Ionccau. 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 attainimi-