This volume was copied by Philip Holbrook Nicklin, a Philadelphia author and bookseller, from portions of the "London Quarterly Journal of Science Literature and the Arts" and partly from a translation of the original, to which is prefixed a short conchological introduction, containing descriptions of the Linnean genera, & of those species, from which Lamarck has formed most of his genera.
This volume, written between May 3 and December 2, includes essays on mineralogy, the vegetable kingdom (such as botany and fruitification), and the animal kingdom (such as zoology, ornithology, and generation of animals).
These are the Sloane manuscripts 4036-4069, comprised principally of letters to Sloane from scholars, physicians, naturalists, and collectors in Great Britain, Europe, and America.
This is a recording of Fowler's remembrances of Philadelphia naturalists who were affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where he worked. Fowler remembers Edward D. Cope and Samuel N. Rhoads in particular.
This classification is made on the plan presented in the "Encyclopedia Britannica," and includes genera and species not included there, especially of North America and particularly the fresh water fish of Pennsylvania and New York states, ca. 1866-1879. Also included are many illustrations of specimens.