Search Results: the philosophy of natural history by smellie william 1740 1795

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2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, 317 [i.e. 417]; vii, 469. contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving endleaves. engraved bookplate of William Blacker, of Carrick. First Dublin Edition, comprising the contents of Volume I only (the second volume of the Edinburgh first edition was posthumously published in 1799). The Edinburgh printer, naturalist and antiquary printed the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1771, in addition to contributing fifteen major articles and preparing the work for the press. In 1778 he became secretary of the Newtonian Club, and in 1793 of the Scottish Antiquaries’ Society, of which he was an original member and keeper of their natural history museum. He is also noted for having translated and edited Buffon’s Natural History, 1781. Smellie in the present work pioneered a psychological behavioural approach to zoology, discussing inter alia puberty and love, the hostilities and society of animals, and the principle of imitation in animals. Freeman 3437. cfCasey Wood p. 570.