' iv PRiEFATIO; 



hinc annis clafli animalium paucas mfuforioru?/! fpe- 

 cics inferere b) primus & fblus aufus eft , ac in nimia 

 afRuenda infequentium Nomenclatorum regni anima- 

 lis nullus iis operam riteimpendit. 



IpfeLiNNEUs, fummus animantium colIeElor^ 

 qul Spongia7U hcuikrem , dubis animalitatis fubiec- 

 tum , adoptari non dubitabat, in mundo invifibili, 

 de quo didertationem dedit, hofpes, cum pluribus 

 ambigit, minfuforia fint "corpora viva organis in- 

 "ftru£ta, an vero aliud quidpiam falinum, oleofum 

 "&c." Nomincquefpecifico,infaufto(atis, gentem 

 innumeris fpeciebus affluenteni in tenebras damnat. 



Minime tamen fua laude defraudandi viri inper- 

 contatione minimorum infignes, priEter jam nomina- 

 tosJoBLOT, Baker, Trembley, Reaumur, Roe- 

 SEL, Ledermuller, Bonnet , Wrisberg, Pai> 

 lAS, Munchhausen, Saussure, & nuperi Goeze, 

 Wagler, Roffredi & Terechowsky, Hermann 

 Ycrbis aeneisque figuris, opinioni quorundam, maxi- 



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b) Hiftory of ttnitmh , London 1752. P. 1 — la. t, |. 



