382 MemoiHal of George Brozvn Goode. 



F. Froger, aconipauion of De Geniies in his voyage made in 1 695-1 697 

 to the coast of Africa, the Straits of Magellan, Brazil, Cayenne, and the 

 Antilles, published a report in 1698.' The book has been overlooked 

 by recent bibliographers, but, judging from Artedi's remarks upon its 

 ichthyological portion, it was fully equal to similar works of its day. 



Baron de la Hontan, lord lieutenant of the French colony at Pla- 

 centia, printed at the Hague in 1703 his Voyages dans I'Amerique, 

 which is sometimes referred to by zoologists. 



Louis Feuillee, who traveled by royal commission from 1707 to 171 2 

 in Central and South America, published four volumes of physical 

 mathematics and botanical observations, 1714-1725, in Paris. 



The Pere Jean Baptiste Labat visited the West Indies as a missionary 

 early in the eighteenth century, and Nouveau Vo3'age aux Isles de 

 I'Amerique, printed in Paris, 1722, is very full of interesting and copious 

 details of natural history. 



The Pere Laval visited Louisiana and published in Paris, 1728, his 

 Voyage de la Louisiane. 



M. Le Page Du Pratz followed, in 1758, with his Histoire de la Loui- 

 siane,'' full of geographical, biological, and anthropological observations 

 upon the lower valley of the Mississippi, and Captain Bossu, of the French 

 marines, also published a book upon "the same region, translated into 

 English in 1771 by John Reinhold Forster, whose notes gave to the w^ork 

 its only value. These men are all catalogued with the .seventeenth- 

 century naturalists because they were of the old school of general 

 observers and only indirectly contributed to the progress of systematic 

 zoology. 



Charles Plumier [b. 1646, d. 1704] was sent thrice by the King of 

 France to the Antilles during the latter years of the seventeenth century. 

 He published three magnificently illustrated works upon the plants of 

 America •* and left an extensive collection of notes and drawings of ani- 

 mals and plants, many of which have proved of value to naturalists of 

 recent years. His colored drawings of fishes were of great service to 

 Cuvier in the preparation of his great work upon ichthyology, and in 

 some instances species were founded upon them. 



The Dutch. — There were few lovers of nature among the colonists of 

 Manhattan, and with the exception of certain names which have clung 

 to well-known animals, such as the mossbunker and weakfish, naturalists 

 have little to remind them of the days of Van Twiller and Stuyvesant. 

 Van Der Donck, in 1659, described the fauna, and Jakob Steendam's 

 poem, " In praise of the Netherlands," catalogued many of the animals. 



'Paris, 1698; Amsterdam, 1699; London (translation), 1698. 



= Paris, ] 758. 



3Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales, etc., Paris, 1768. 



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