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 In England, Dr. Lister has done the most to compleat this Part of Natural History. His Book of Spiders gives an Account of very many Species of those Animals, formerly unobserved. His Latin and English Editions of Goedartius, have not only made that Author more intelligible, by ranging his confused Observations under certain Heads conformable to Nature, which may serve also as Foundations to enlarge upon, as more Species shall hereafter be discovered; but also have given him an Opportunity of saying many new Things, pertinent to that Subject, all tending to increase our Knowledge of those small Productions of the Divine Mechanicks. And his Discourse of Snails, lately printed, has shewn several very curious Things in that wonderful Tribe of Animals; which, though observed above Thirty Years ago, by Mr. Ray, yet had not been much believed, because not sufficiently illustrated by some able Anatomist.

This is what our Age has seen; and it is not the less admirable, because it cannot be made immediately useful to humane Life: It is an excellent Argument to prove, That it is not Gain alone which biasses the Pursuits of the Men of this Age after Knowledge; for here are