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Doc. 313.] 945
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
we learn that there were three casts of that work made by him.
The first consisted of the four volumes, the contents of which are
specified in no. 56, A, p. 921) . The second embodies in the plan
of the Regnum Animale the contents of the Economia, &c, and the
combined materials of these two works are arranged by the author
under the common name of Regnum Animale, in the seventeen parts
specified in no. 71, p. 938.
The third retains the seventeen parts of the second, but the
internal arrangement of these parts is very much changed : for in
the second cast or "projection" the parts treating of the heart and
the generative organs are placed before those treating of the senses,
the brain, the nervous and motive fibre, and the animal spirit ; while
in the third cast they follow these parts. See no. 73, p. 941 .
There are thus in existence three distinct series of the Regnum
Animale, of which the first two agree in the order in which the
subjects were to be treated; the second differing from the first only
in this that the substance of the Economia, &c. is worked up into
it. These two, therefore, are essentially one, and in distinction from
the third they may be called the "Old Series" of the Regnum
Animale. The whole of this "Old Series" was prepared by the
author for the press, before he arrived in Holland in 1743.
The "New Series" he began after his arrival in Holland in
1743; but it was never extended by him beyond the beginning of
Part IV.
It is of importance that these two series should be kept distinct,
wherefore in what follows we shall point out the parts and ingredients
of each of these two series :
THE NEW SERIES OF THE REGNUM ANIMALE.
Parts I and II, which were printed at the Hague in 1744,
no. 71, p. 937. In their preparation the author worked up the
materials furnished by Parts I and II of the "Old Series," retaining
the greater part, re-writing part, and adding some new chapters.
The chapters on the periosteum and the female breast were not
embodied by the author in Parts I and II of the "New Series ;" they
constitute Part I of no. 69, p. 935.
Part III, treating on the senses. Of this part there are two
different copies.
The first copy consists of the rough draught of the whole of
Part III. It is no. 73, p. 941, and was entitled by the author,
-On sense in general, its influx into the soul, and the reaction of
the latter."
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