Volume 183401

The book of nature / By John Mason Good.

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1834
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Credit: The book of nature / By John Mason Good. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mination of time, terms, and subject. He re- gretted his inability of acceding to so kind a request at that particular period; but being a little more at liberty not long afterwards, he readily consented, on a second application by Dr. Lettsom and other Directors; and the en- suing volumes contain the course of study he ventured to make choice of; the lectures having been divided into series, and delivered in suc- cessive years. It was his intention to have carried the plan . to a somewhat more protracted extent, though the present is sufficiently complete for the out- line laid down: but, though earnestly and re- peatedly pressed to proceed further, or even to go over the same lectures again, an augmented sphere of professional duties compelled him, with much reluctance, to decline the invitation; and the same cause has prevented him, till the present period, from fulfilling a subsequent re- quest to submit them to the public; though he has always intended to do so as soon as he could find leisure. As the lectures were delivered from general recollection, though with the author’s manuscript at hand, it is possible that those who took notes may find a few passages in the present text slightly varied from what was uttered at the ,