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Chapter V.--Progress Towards a Natural System of Botany. 404

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CHAPTER VI.--THE PROGRESS OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY. 412

CHAPTER VII.--THE PROGRESS OF ICHTHYOLOGY. 419

Period of Unsystematic Knowledge. 420 Period of Erudition. 421 Period of Accumulation of Materials.--Exotic Collections. 422 Epoch of the Fixation of Characters.--Ray and Willoughby. 422 Improvement of the System.--Artedi. 423 Separation of the Artificial and Natural Methods in Ichthyology. 426

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