he partly adopted that of the Stagirite: it is to Linnaeus, however, that we owe a system, which is at least methodical and perspicuous; and if succeeding zoologists have produced more perfect arrangements, they can only be said to have improved upon his. FOOTNOTES: [E] Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, tome i. p. 54, edit. 1785. [F] See Life of Pliny, by Cuvier, in the Biographie Universelle, tome xxxv. p. 70. GESNER, BELON, SALVIANI, RONDELET, AND ALDROVANDI. _Zoologists of the Sixteenth Century._ Conrad Gesner--Account of his Life and Writings, preceded by Remarks on those of AElian, Oppian, Albertus Magnus, Paolo Giovio, and Hieronymus Bock--Pierre Belon--Hippolito Salviani--Guillaume Rondelet--Ulysses Aldrovandi--General Remarks on their Writings, and the State of Science at the Close of the Sixteenth Century. CONRAD GESNER. From the time of Pliny to the commencement of the sixteenth century, zoology, like the other sciences, made little progress. The only naturalists during the earlier portion of this interval at all deserving of notice are AElian and Oppian. The former was born at Praeneste in the year 160, and wrote in Greek a History of Animals, which, like that of the philosopher of Comum, is disfigured by numerous errors and fables. The latter was a poet, a native of Cilicia, who lived under the Emperor Caracalla in the beginning of the third century. Two only of his productions are now extant, his Halieuticon and Cynaegeticon; the one containing five books on fishing, the other, four on hunting. These works are still occasionally consulted, though they afford little useful information, and might without any loss to science be consigned to oblivion.