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This is a dictionary, in which the Linngean orders (miscalled classes of orders), 

 genera, and species are described under their French names in alphabetical order. 

 Tabular synopses (each on a special page) are also given of the classes, genera, and 

 species under their French names, in connection with the descriptions. The work is 

 a very poor and imperfect compilation, by an author practically unacquainted with 

 Fishes as well as with the then recent literature of the subject. The following is 

 a complement to it : 



1788. 



BONNATERRE (J . . . P . . .) Tableau Encyclopedique et MSthodique des 

 trois rfegnes de la Nature, dedie et prSsente & M. Necker, Ministre d'Etat, & 

 Directeur general des Finances. ICHTHYOLOGIE. Par M. 1'Abbe Bonnaterre. 

 . A Paris, chez Panckoucke, libraire, .... 1788. .... [4to., 

 vi, 215 pp., 2 (A, B) -f 100 pi.] 



A poor compilation, arranged according to the Linnaean classification, by an in- 

 dividual who was employed by Panckoucke, the publisher of the Encyclopedia 

 Methoolique, to bring together the illustrations of the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, 

 Fishes, and Insects. The compiler has availed himself of the works of most of the 

 authors preceding, and collected illustrations of more than 400 species. 



GMELIN (Johann Friedrich). Caroli a Linne, Equitis aurati de Stella polari, 

 Archiatri Regii, Med. et Botan. Profess. Upsal. Acad. Paris. Upsal. Holm. 

 Petropol. Berolin. Imper. Londin. Angl. Monsp. Tolos. Florent. Edinb. Bern. Soc. 

 Systema Naturae per regna tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, 

 Species, cum characteribus, differentiis, sijnonymis, locis. Tomus I. [ ] III. 

 Editio Decima tertia, Aucta, Reformata. Cura Jo. Fred. Gmelin, Philos. et 

 Med. Doctor. Hujus et Chem. in Georgia Augusta Prof. P. O. Acad. Caesar. 

 Naturae Curiosornm et Electoral. Moguntin. Erfordensis, nee non Societ. Reg. 

 Scient. Goettingensis, Physicae Tigurin., et Metallicae Membri. Lipsiae, 1788 

 -93. Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer. [8vo., 4120 pp., 3 v. in 9 parts, viz: 



The three volumes, being very much amplified, were divided into parts, with half 

 titles, for binding, viz : 



Tomus I. [Regnum Animale : pars i. (Mammalia; Ai'es, ordines 1-2), (5 p.l., 

 pp. 1-500: pars ii. (Aves, ordiues 3-6), 1 p.l., pp. 501-1032: pars iii. (Am- 

 phibia, Pisces), 1 p.l., pp. 1033 (Pisces, 1126)-1516: pars iv. (Insecta, 

 ordines 1-2), 1 p.l., pp. 1517-2224: pars v. (Insecta, ordines 3-7), 1 p.l., 

 pp. 2225-3020 : pars vi. (Verrnes), 1 p.l., pp. 3021-3910: pars vii. (Indices), 

 1 p.l., pp. 3911-4120.] 1789. 

 Tomus II. [Regnum Vegetabile:] pars i., 1 p.l. xl, 884 pp. : pars ii., 1 p.l. 



pp. 885-1661.] 1791. 



Tomus III. [Regnum Lapideum.] 476 pp., 3 pi. folded. 1793. 

 This edition is noticed under the date of 1788 and the name of Gmelin, as that 

 naturalist is alone responsible for the incorporation of the many species described 

 since the last edition of the Systema Naturae revised by Linn6. The compilation 

 displays very little acquaintance with any branch of Zoology, and species are incor- 

 porated into the system in defiance of the characters of the groups to which they 

 are referred. This is evidently the result of blind confidence in the accuracy and 



