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CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS, 



AND 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



In explaining- the abbreviations employed to indicate the numerous 

 writers necessarily referred to in this work, we have embraced the op- 

 portunity of giving the reader a general idea of their profession, the 

 period of their birth and decease, and of the character of their 

 writings. 



Abild. — Abildgaardt (Peter-Christian), a Danish naturalist; 

 Professor at Copenhagen, died in 1808. 



One of the continuers of the Zoologia Danica of Miiller, and author of va- 

 rious Memoirs published among those of the Society of Natural History, and 

 of The Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, as well as those of the So- 

 ciety of Naturalists of Berlin. 



Acad, des So. 



I thus quote the " Memoirs de I'Academie des Sciences" of Paris, of which 

 one quarto volume was annually published from 1700 to 1790. 



I have also occasionally quoted the " Memoirs des Savants Etrangers," 

 eleven volumes, from 1750 to 1786. 



I have also frequently quoted the " Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin," 

 from 1819, and the new ones of the Academia Naturse Curiosorum of Bonn, 

 from Vol. IX, at which epoch they assumed their new form. 



For those of the Academy of Petersburg, see Peterob. or Petrop. 

 AcosTA or rather Mendez da Costa (Emmanuel), a Portuguese 

 naturalist, resident in London. 



" Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae," 1 vol. 4to. London, 1778. 

 Adanson (Michael), born at Aix in 1727, and died in Paris 1806, 

 Member of the Academic des Sciences, and one of the first natu- 

 ralists who attenipted the classification of Shells according to their 

 animals. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Coquillages du S<5n^gal," 1775, 1 vol. 4to. 



Agassis, a German naturalist. 



Editor of the " Fishes of Spix," and author of Memoirs in the Isis. 



Ahr. — Ahrens. 



" Augusti Ahrensii, Fauna Insectorum Europse, fascic. 1 — XII." 

 Alb. or Albin. — Albin (Eleazar), an English painter. 



"A Natural History of Birds," 3 vols. 4to. London, 1731 — 38, contain- 

 ing 306 indifferent coloured plates. 



"A Natural History of Spiders," 1 vol. 4to, with plates. London, 1736. 

 Albinus (Bernard-Sigcfroy), Professor of Leyden, and one of the 

 great anatomists of the eighteenth centurv, born at Frankfort in 

 1697. died in 1770. 



We have only had occasion to quote him for the description of the Penna- 

 tulae inserted in the " Annotationes Academicae," 8 Nos. in 4to. Leyden, 

 1754—1768. 



