An introductory lecture to a course in comparative anatomy, illustrative of Paley's Natural theology / by John Kidd.

  • Kidd, John, 1775-1851.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An introductory lecture to a course in comparative anatomy, illustrative of Paley's Natural theology / by John Kidd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • Vll of having given any personal offence. With Dr. Gall indeed I am perfectly unacquainted: but I have a gratification in taking this opportunity of ex¬ pressing the pleasure I experienced from the short acquaintance which I made some few years since, in Oxford, with his colleague Dr. Spurzheim : of whom, in common with many of the first professional cha¬ racters in this country, I am disposed to think most highly. With respect to the following Lecture itself, I do not in the least deprecate the exercise of criticism, however severe, provided it be also candid: but I would beg leave to remind the general reader, that the Course of Lectures, to which the present was introductory, was delivered to an audience, com¬ posed chiefly of individuals to whom the pursuit of physical science both is and ought to be a relaxa¬ tion rather than a study. But I have now no fear of that jealousy which once existed towards this University, in the minds of those who had not had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with its in¬ stitutions. Oxford is now strong enough to say without boasting, that though clouds soon obscured her bright dawn of natural science, which, origi¬ nating in the labours and association of Boyle, Hooke, Wallis, Sir Christopher Wren, and others of similar pursuits, subsequently led to the establish-