[795] Phil. Zool. tom. i. p. 234.

[796] Phil. Zool. p. 64.

[797] Animaux sans Vert. tom. i. p. 56, Introduction.

[798] Lamarck's Phil. Zool. tom. i. p. 356.

[799] Ibid. p. 357.

[800] Genus omne est naturale, in primordio tale creatum, &c.
Phil. Bot. Section 159. See also ibid. Section 162.

[801] Cuvier, Discours Pralimin. p. 128.

[802] Phil. Zool. tom. i. p. 266.

[803] Dureau de la Malle, An. des Sci. Nat. tom. xxi. p. 53.
Sept. 1830.

[804] Disc. Pral. p. 139. sixth edition.

[805] Ibid.

[806] Guldenstadt, cited by Pritchard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind,
vol. i. p. 96.

[807] History of British Quadrupeds, p. 200. 1837.

[808] Ann. du Musaum d'Hist. Nat. tom. i. p. 234. 1802. The
reporters were MM. Cuvier, Lacapede, and Lamarck.

[809] I by no means wish to express an opinion that seeds
cannot retain their vitality after an entombment of 3,000
years; but one of my botanical friends who entertained a
philosophical doubt on this subject, being desirous of
ascertaining the truth of three or four alleged instances of
the germination of "mummy wheat," discovered, on communicating
with several Egyptian travellers, that they had procured the
grains in question, not directly from the catacombs, but from
the Arabs, who are always ready to supply strangers with an
article now very frequently in demand. The presence of an
occasional grain of Indian corn or maize in several of the
parcels of grain shown to my friend as coming from the
catacombs confirmed his scepticism.

[810] Phil. Zool., tom. i. p. 227.

[811] L'Origine et la Patrie des Caraales, &c., Annales des
Sciences Natur., tom. ix. p. 61.

[812] Smith's Introduction to Botany, p. 138, edit. 1807.

[813] See Mr. Knight's Observations, Hort Trans., vol. ii. p.
160.

[814] Hort. Trans. vol. iv. p. 19.

[815] Loudon's Mag. of Nat. Hist., Sept. 1830, vol. iii. p.
408.

[816] Hort. Trans. vol. iii. p. 173.

[817] M. Roulin, Ann. des Sci. Nat. tom. xvi. p. 16. 1829.

[818] Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat.--Jameson, Ed. New Phil. Journ.
Nos. 6, 7, 8.

[819] In the New Forest, near Ringwood, Hants, by Mr. Toomer,
keeper of Broomy Lodge. I have conversed with witnesses of the
fact.

[820] Mam. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat.

[821] D