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Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

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Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.

Name: Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.
Author: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Natural history

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                           _Barr's Buffon._

                       Buffon's Natural History,

                              CONTAINING

                        A THEORY OF THE EARTH,
                               A GENERAL
                           _HISTORY OF MAN_,
                     OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF
                         VEGETABLES, MINERALS,
                              _&c._ _&c._

                           FROM THE FRENCH.

                     WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.

                            IN TEN VOLUMES.

                               VOL. III.

                                London:
                      PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
              AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

                                 1807.

                    T. Gillet, Printer, Wild-Court.

                               CONTENTS

                                  OF

                           THE THIRD VOLUME.

                                                           _Page_

              History of Animals                               1

  Chap. VI.   _Experiments on the Method of Generation_        81

  Chap. VII.  _Comparison of my Observations with those
                of Leeuwenhoek_                               134

  Chap. VIII. _Reflections on the preceding Experiments_      159

  Chap. IX.   _Varieties on the Generation of Animals_        208

  Chap. X.    _On the Formation of the Foetus_                226

  Chap. XI.   _On the Expansion, Growth, and Delivery of
                the Foetus_                                   260

              _Recapitulation_                                309

              History of Man.

  Chap. I.    _Of the Nature of Man_                          317

  Chap. II.   _Of Infancy_                                    334

_Directions for placing the Plates._

  Page 88, Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
      106, Fig. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
      140, Plate III.
      148, Plate IV.

BUFFON'S

NATURAL HISTORY.

_HISTORY OF ANIMALS._

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