 | William MacGillivray - 1834 - 418 pagine
...therefore could not be allotted to him of whom Sir James Smith says, that he was " the most accurate in observation, — the most philosophical in contemplation,...botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time." Several species of fishes, however, are named after him, in consequence of his having been the first... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1834 - 408 pagine
...therefore could not be allotted to him of whom Sir James Smith says, that he was " the most accurate in observation, — the most philosophical in contemplation,...botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time." Several species of fishes, however, are named after him, in consequence of his having been the first... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1834 - 418 pagine
...therefore could not be allotted to him of whom Sir James Smith says, that he was " the most accurate in observation, — the most philosophical in contemplation,...botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time." Several species of fishes, however, are named after him, in consequence of his having been the first... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pagine
...both by his countrymen and by foreigners. Sir James E. Smith says that Bay ' was the most accurate in observation — the most philosophical in contemplation...the botanists of his own or perhaps any other time.' In zoology, he occupies an equally distinguished place, having not only enlarged its boundaries by... | |
 | William Derham, James Edward Smith, Georges baron Cuvier, Aubert Aubert Du Petit-Thouars - 1846 - 248 pagine
...botanist.] Raiania in botany, so called in honour of our immortal naturalist, John Ray, the most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation, and the most faithful in description, of all the botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time. Plumier, who established this genus, finding... | |
 | 1847 - 424 pagine
...Wray, or, as he subsequently wrote his name, Ray, our great English naturalist, "the most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation, and the most faithful in description, of all the botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time," was the son of a blacksmith at Black Notley,... | |
 | John Ray - 1848 - 540 pagine
...character of him given by the late revered President of the Linnsean Society—" The most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation,...the British botanist is indebted for the first good Mora of his native land. At an early period of his life he gave to the world his ' Catalogus Plantarum... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1866 - 432 pagine
...botanist in the memory of man ;' and by Sir James Edward Smith, he is said to be ' the most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation,...faithful in description, amongst all the botanists of our own, or perhaps any other time.' As a zoologist, Ray ranks also very high. Up to his time naturalists... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1886 - 344 pagine
...respect the verdict of Sir James E. Smith ('Rees's Cyclopsedia'), that Ray was ' the most accurate in observation — the most philosophical in contemplation...botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time.' The second division of Ray's works includes his theological treatises, of which two attained great... | |
 | Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 396 pagine
...his extreme accuracy in the use of words. He was, indeed, as Sir JE Smith said, " the most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation,...faithful in description amongst all the botanists of our own or perhaps any other time." In his " Methodus Plantarum Nova " (1682), after recognizing a... | |
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The most accurate in observation, the most philosophical in contemplation, and the most faithful in description, amongst all the botanists of his own, or perhaps any other time. 
