REPORT ON THE AMPHIPODA. 3 



1554. EoNDELET, GuiLLAUME, born 1507, died 1566 (Biographie Universelle). 



Libii de piscibus marinis in quibus ver^e piscium effigies expressse suut. 

 Lugduni, M.D.Liiii. pp. 534-577. 



Liber xviii., De Piscibus, quae dicantur Crustacea, contains chapters on Stalk-eyed and Sessile- 

 eyed Crustace<a and on Echinoderms. Chapter xxvii., De Pulice marine, begins : " Cum 

 Maris purgamentis aliquoties reperi bestiolam tenui crusta intectam, quam hie depinximus, 

 quae facie homun clones ridicule pictos vel simiam reprsesentat aliis partibus locustse similis 

 est, in Cauda appendiculas habet locustaj et squillie modo, tarn exigua est ut particuloe corijoris 

 nisi ab oculato discerni possint, ob parvitatem negligitur. Hanc puto 

 esse ij/vWov daXdmov, id est, j)ulicem marinum, de quo Aristoteles, 

 quum de piscium sonmo agit." He then proceeds with a translation 

 of the passage from Aristotle, lib. iv. ch. 10. Eoeck thinks he means 

 some species of Gammanis. The accomjjanyiug woodcut wiU give a Fig. 1. 



fair idea of Eondelet's drawing, which has the special interest of being, 

 I believe, the earliest known figure of an Amphipod, whether the original were a Gammarus, 

 or, as seems equally possible, an Orchestia. In saying that its fades " represents a human 

 being caricatured or a monkey," Rondelet has jirobably mistaken the taU for the head. 



In ch. xxviii., De Pediculo IMarino, he gives the figure of an Isopod, but explains that the 

 cf>6iip 6a\aTTLos of Aristotle applies not only to this, but also to a species, " qui in 

 mari, quod est k Cyrena ad yEgyptum circa delphinum est, qui omnium pinguissimus fit 

 pabuli copia, qu£e delphini opera suppeditatur." The oTo-rpos of Aristotle, from the fins 

 of the thunny, like a scorpion, and of the size of a spider, is not to be confused, he says, with 

 these <l>6eip€^. 



1558. Gesner, Conrad (or Gessner, Konrad), born 1516, died 1565 (Encycl. Brit., 9th Ed.) 



Conr. Gesner, medici Tigurini : Historiae animalium Liber IV, qui est de piscium 

 et aquatilium animalium natura cum iconibus singulorum ad vivum expressis fere 

 omnib. Dccvi. Contineutur in hoc volumine Gulielmi Rondeletii quoque medicine 

 professoris Regii in Schola Moutpeliensi & Petri Bellonii Cenomani, medici hoc 

 tempore Lutetise eximii, de aquatilium singulis scripta. Tiguri, mdlviii. 



Boeck, De Skand. og Arkt. Amph., p. 19, gives the date of this work as 1548, and he says, 

 p. 32, that it repeats on p. 994 Eondelet's text without any addition of importance, under 

 the heading De puliei marino Rondeletico. Since tlie date 1548 was inconsistent with 

 the reference to Rondelet, and the first edition of GBsner's work was not to be met with in 

 England, I sought information from Copenhagen, and Mr. G. E. C. Gad has had the 

 kindness to send me the full title and the date a.s above given of the first edition in question, 

 from the Royal Library in Copenhagen. The first volume, he tells me, is dated 1551, the 

 fourth volume 1558, and in this latter the heading " De pubUce [pulice] marino Eonde- 

 letius" occurs not on page 994, but on page 894. In the 2nd Edition, 1620, the notice 

 occurs on pp. 759-760. To Rondelet's account is added " Gignuntur et in stagnis marinis 

 similes," and a " CoroUarium " about the uses of the ^ysyllas marinus which leaps about on 

 the shore. The reference in the Index to the account of the Pediculus marinus of Rondelet 

 is given wrongly as p. 649 instead of 694. 



