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a learned priest of Grezzana, who wrote in 1737, and again in 1744, to 

 prove that the fossils fonnd near Verona were not of diluvian origin 

 Scipio MafFei ^ was another active collector and writer on Bolca tishes 

 during the middle of the eighteenth century. But we cannot dwell upon 

 any of the numerous minor publications of this time, nor even upon the 

 more important contributions of Moro,^ Generelli,^ and others. With 

 this brief sketch we must conclude our survey of pre-Linnaean literature, 

 and pass on to the modern era ; for from the time of the two great 

 Swedish naturalists onward, Linne and Artedi, the latter of whom is 

 justly styled the "father of ichthyology," a new order of things existed. 

 One of the earliest writers of the new era in natural science, and in- 

 deed the first who attempted a specific determination of the Bolca fishes, 

 was Cammillo Zampieri d'Imola,* whose Catalogue of the Ginauni 

 Museum, published in 17G2, is decidedly me)-itorious. His identifica- 

 tion of species, however, based as it was upon the treatises of Willoughby 

 and Ray, was altogether f^xulty. The celebrated Fortis also made un- 

 successful endeavors to identify Bolca fishes with the species described 

 by Bloch and Broussonet. Fortis had already noted the occurrence of 

 fossil fishes Mn other parts of the Alpine strata, but on turning his 

 attention to the Bolca forms, he encountered difficulties.^ He was mis- 



diluviani. Verona, 1737. — Wew, Corporum lapidefactorum agri veronensis cata- 

 logus. Verona, 1744. In Plate ii. of this work is given a tolerable figure of 

 Semiophorus. See also Cobres's estimate of Spada, in Buchersammlung der Natur- 

 geseliichte, I. p. 20. 



1 Maffei, F. S., Del Monte Bolca, della sua Pesciaia, e degli annessi Monti Caion- 

 nari, etc., in his Compendio della Verona Illustrata, Vol. I., pp. 217-230, pi. i.-viil. 

 Verona, 1795. 



2 Moro, L., Sui crostaeei ed altri corpi marini che si trovano sui monti. 1740. 

 The same work was also published in German under the title of " Neue Unter- 

 suchungen iiber die Abiinderungen der Erde." Leipzic, 1751. 



Moro's ideas were appropriated without acknowledgment by Edward King in a 

 paper read before the Royal Society entitled " An attempt to account for the 

 Universal Deluge" (Phil. Trans., LVII. pp. 44-57), 1767. For a biographical 

 sketch of Lazzaro Moro see Giornale di Storia naturale del Griselini, I. p. 79. 



3 Generelli, C, Dei crostaeei e di altre produzione del mare. 1749. 



« Zampieri, C, Produzione naturali che si ritrovano nel Museo Ginanni in 

 Ravenna. Lucca, 1702. 



* Fortis, A., Viaggi in Dalmazia, IL p. 239. 1774. 



6 Fortis, A., Extrait d'une lettre, etc. Journ. de Phys., XXVIIL 1786. In a 

 later communication to the same journal, Fortis vigorously disclaims authorshii) of 

 the catalogue of Bolca fishes which is appended to his first article. In this anony- 

 mous postscript an extravagant valuation (28,000 liv.) is placed upon the Bozza 

 Collection, which then consisted of about six hundred specimens. 



