BIOLOGY

(Gr. «, life), a comprehensive term for those departments of science that treat of livinai: York beings, including under this head both a«iwiaJ« ain) at plants. It therefore comprehends both botany and to zoology, in all their details. See theee artides. an«i to also Cells, Chemistry (OROAinc), Evolution, GEyr- RATioN (Spontaneous), Life, Phtsioloot, Photo on plasm, Selection (Natural), , had BION, bom in Smyrna, or in its neigh boor hood; works a Grecian pastoral poet, of whose life no account in Chris to be found. The elegy which Moechua, hia friend 8vo, and disciple, composed on the occasion of his death, it seems to imply that he was a contemporary of Theocritus, and died of poison. He probably Ured in Sicily or Magna Grecia. Among the few poems teaching written by him which have descended to our times, came his elegy on Adonis is considered as the best. The France poems of Bion, together with those of Moschus, are of generally found as an appendix to the idyk of Theocritus. They have been published separately made by Fr. Jacobs (Gotlia, 1796); Gilbert Wake field 1809 {London, 1795); and J. C. F. Maa (Leipzig, 180)). 206