54.
Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line, 56.

Titmouse, The, 55.
True Heroine, The, 51.

Under the Snow, 55.

Volunteer, The, 55.
Voyage of the Good Ship Union, 53.

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Arnold's Lectures on translating Homer, 51.

Book about Doctors, A, 54.
Botta's Discourse on the Life, Character,
and Policy of Count Cavour, 55.

Cloister and the Hearth, The, 52.

De Vere, Aubrey, Poems by, 54.
Dickens's Works, Household Edition, 55.

Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation, 55.

John Brent, 54.

Leigh Hunt, Correspondence of, 55.
Lessons in Life, 51.

Mueller's Lectures on the Science of Language, 51.

Newman's Homeric Translation in Theory and
in Practice, 51.

Pauli's Pictures of Old England, 55.

Record of an Obscure Man, 55.

Tragedy of Errors, 55.

Willmott's English Sacred Poetry, 52.

FOREIGN LITERATURE, 54, 55.

OBITUARY, 51.

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS, 52, 53, 54, 55.

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

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VOL. IX.--JANUARY, 1862.--NO. LI.

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METHODS OF STUDY IN NATURAL HISTORY.

I.

It is my intention, in this series of papers, to give the history of the
progress in Natural History from the beginning,--to show how men first
approached Nature,--how the facts of Natural History have been
accumulated, and how those facts have been converted into science. In so
doing, I shall present the methods employed in Natural History on a wider
scale and with broader generalizations than if I limited myself to the
study as it exists to-day. The history of humanity, in its efforts to
understand the Creation, resembles the development of any individual mind
engaged in the same direction