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cite ed. 1775 — the latter, however, under the title ' Systematisches 

 Verzeichniss ' &e. This latter, perhaps, accounts for Hagcn's slip 

 (i. 167), where, under Deuis, ho gives nearly the 1770 title, with 

 the 1775 date. Engelmann (505) falls into just the opposite error, 

 citing the 1775 title with date 1770. 



Hagen (ii. 122), under Schiftermuller, gives " i. Ankiindigung 

 .... 1775/' but only at second hand, as he had not seen it. 



Percheron (I. c.) quotes among the reviews of the work " Jena 

 gel. Zeit. 1775, p. 825." As there is no copy of the ' Jenaische 

 Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachcn ' in this country, I wrote to 

 Dr. 0. Taschenberg, in Halle, who very obligingly sent for a copy 

 from Jena and wrote me out the review verbatim. It appeared in 

 " lxxxxviii Stuck. Freytags den 8 December 1775," pp. 825-826, 

 and described the work as " Ankiindigung .... 1775. 322 8. in gr. 

 4. nebst 8 Kupfertafeln," quite accurately, except that I suppose 8 

 to be a typographical error for " 3," — an error, however, which has 

 been followed by Schroter and by " L'Esprit des Journaux." The 

 reviewer says, " Dieses bier angekiindigte fiirtrefliche Werk 

 haben wir vorziiglich den Herren Frofessoren Schifcrmiiller [sic] 

 und Denis zu danken," and goes on to discuss appreciatively the 

 authors' plan. The title " Ankundung" was of course indicative of 

 the fact (well-known to lepidopterists) that even this great catalogue 

 of 322 pp. was only intended as the precursor of a much greater 

 work which never appeared. But the title in question has given 

 rise to much confusion, and it is highly probable, as Dr. Taschenberg 

 suggests, that it was changed iu 1770 to " Systeinatisches Verzeich- 

 niss '* &c. because its scope had been misunderstood. It is quite 

 obvious, as Mr. Durrant points out, that there cannot "have been 

 such a demand for this work in 1775 as to necessitate a second 

 edition in 1770" (in litt., 9 Feb. 1900); moreover, Mr. Sherborn 

 has shown from internal evidence that there is only one printing in 

 question. Mr. Durrant inclines to regard the 1775 copies as 

 " advertisement advance-copies with a temporary title." 



Other contemporary references to the " Ankundung " may be 

 briefly noted as follows — I give nothing which I have not personally 

 verified : — 



Schroter, " Abhandlungen fiber verschiedene GegenstJinde der 

 Naturgeschichte," erster Theil, 1776, " Vorrede " (dedication is 

 dated 28 Feb. 1770) : " Mein Manuscript war bereits in den Handen 

 meines Herrn Verlegers, als mir noch eine Arbeit zu Gesichte kam 

 die ich nicht fibergehen kan." He then gives the title " Ankiindig- 

 ung" &c, 1775, and remarks that the book might appear to many 

 too detailed for a mere " Ankiindigung," &c, &c. 



1 L'Esprit des Journaux ' for April 1770, p. 400, gives " Ankiindig- 

 ung [sic] einer systematischen werks von der sehmerligen " [sic !], 

 &c, 1775, very probably merely after the account in the 'Jena. 

 Zeit.' 



Schulze, in ' Neue Mannigfaltigkeiten,' iv. pp. 26 (bis — rccte 28) 

 et seq. (Berlin, 1st June, 1776), reviews the " Ankiindigung .... 

 1775 " very fully. 



Berlinische Sammlungen,' ix. p, 219 (recte 303), 1777, refers to 



