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The natural history of dogs : Canidae or genus Canis of authors ; including also the genera Hyaena and Proteles / by Lieut. Col…
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in the subsequent history of Pallas; and its great
utility fo every student of science is so manifest,…
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and physics, and also improved his acquaintance
with mineralogy, in the environs of that city.
In the…
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mentioned above as composed at Gottingen. This
Thesis seems to have been his first work, and was…
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to allow him to go and settle in Holland. Thither
accordingly he went, and took up his abode at the…
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teen plates, as its title Miscellania Zvologica would
lead us to infer, a great variety of subjects arc…
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length on the Anomim, Serpule, the Nercides and
Aphroditee, the Echiuree, Lumbrici, and Hydatids.…
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French government despatched the Abbé Chappe
' Auteroche to Tobolsk to make the required ob-…
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cians, and of a great number of assistants, whose
services were o he devoted to the several objects of…
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firs, and varted by hills and rich meadows., Few
countries more descrve to be peopled. It abounds
in…
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could not be read but with the decpest interest.
He descants largely on salt lakes and mines, on…
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they are dead. W are not, however, to conclude
that this bird swims, since it has not the necessary…
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In 1781, he began a work which he meant parti-
cularly to dedicate to the insects of Russia (Jfeones…
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135.) Pallas laboured at it till his last days, and
lad completed the manuscript, including all the…
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thereby subjects himself to much trouble and vexa-
tion. We cannot convey a better idea of those…
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and government, but devotes a large portion of his
work to an account of their religion, which is truly…
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woman and a sovereign did not happen to make the
hest possible seleetion, nor act with as correct views…
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and in English in 1802. The plan pursued, and
the style of these volumes, are very similar to those
of…
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to great cold, with very insufficient covering. This
accident produced pains, which he hoped the mild…
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disappointment :—*“ Were this the proper place to
inform my readers of the disquietude and hardships…
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phy. We used every endeavour to prevail upon
him to quit the country and accompany us to Yng-
land;…
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science. Besides, he had never borrowed from others
without rendering them explicit justice.
Thus…
APPENDIX
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
OF SOME OF
THE WORKS OF PALLAS.
[The reader will please to remember, that we do not give the…
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seen it noted that he sent three, The only
on¢ we have met is on the Siena juce
ladrix, Thomson’s Hist. Royal…
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Now, adverting to the circumstance of the fertility
of the mixed hreed hetween wolf and dog (one cer-…