V26 Dr. Matok's and Mr. Rackett's 



considerable, to detail wihat was known by his predecessors, with- 

 out making additions of his own. With regard to system, Gesner 

 trod pretty nearly in the steps of Aristotle. In making a fourth 

 class, denominated Anomala, he can scarcely be said to have im- 

 proved the arrangement of the Grecian philosopher; and even if 

 his genera of Balani, Penicillce mariner, Tubuli murini, and Echini, 

 can be considered as more properly placed here than in any one 

 of the Aristotelian classes, it was certainly very injudicious to 

 include the Stellce marines and Medusa among Testaceous animals. 



LINOCIER, 



the well-known copyist of Gesner, gives a brief account of a few 

 shells, m ith figures, in his " Histoire des Poissons." 



IMPERATO. 



Francesco Imperato was the editor of a work on natural history 

 composed principally by his father. The figures, which are far 

 from being either rude or incorrect, relate principally to fossils : 

 they are few in number, but the description of shells occupies 

 several pages, and, though devoid of system, proves the author 

 to have paid considerable attention to this branch of zoology. 

 Besides giving the labours of his father to the world, Francesco 

 published two treatises of his own, one entitled " dc Fossilibits 

 Opuscuhim," and another, " Diseorsi intorno a diverse CoseNaturali." 

 Both of these came from the press at Naples, and deserved, as 

 well as the work first mentioned, to be considered as very respect- 

 able additions to the scientific literature of that day. The treatise 

 on Fossils contains some figures under the correspondent descrip- 

 tions; but the miscellaneous work is destitute of any, and indeed 

 does not treat particularly either of recent or of fossil shells. 



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