456 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 



Aldrov. or Aldr. — Aldrovandi (Ulysse), a nobleman of Bo- 

 logna, Professor of the University of Bologna, born 1525, died blind 

 1605. 



His "Natural History," in fourteen volumes, folio, from 1599 to 1640, 

 eleven of which are on the subject of animals, was mostly published by his suc- 

 cessors. The third volume of the Ornithology and the first of the Insects were 

 the only ones published during his life. It is an undigested and wearisome 

 compilation. 



Amor. — Amoreux (N.), a physician of Montpellier. 



" Notice des Insectes de la France, r(5putes Venimeux," 1 vol. folio, with 

 plates. Paris, 17S6. 



" Description Methodique d'une esp^ce de Scorpion commune a Souvig- 

 nargues, en Languedoc." Journal de Physique, XXXV. 

 Anders. — Anderson (John), a merchant and Burgomaster of 

 Hamburg, born in 1674, died in 1743. 



" Histoire Naturelle de I'Islande du Groenland," &c., 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1750. 

 This work, although antiquated and superficial, is still the principal source of 

 our information relative to the Cetacea. 



Andrew (John Gerad Reinhard), druggist at Hanover, born in 

 1724, died in 1793. 



" Letters written from Switzerland to Hanover, 1763," in the German 

 Language. They were at first printed separately in the Hanover Magazine for 

 1764 — 65, and republished in 1 vol. 4to. Zurich, 1776. 

 Ann. Mus. or du Mus. — " Annales du Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle de Paris," by the professors of that establishment, 20 vols. 4to. 

 from 1802 to 1813. 



This work is continued under the title of — 



" Memoirs du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle," &c. Paris, 1815, et seq. 

 Eighteen volumes have been published. 



Argenv. — Argenville (Antoine Joseph Des-Alliers d'), maitre 

 des Comptes of Paris, born 1680, died 1765. 



" L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans una de ses principales parties, la Con- 

 CHYLiOLOGiE," 4to., first edition. Paris, 1742; the second augmented by 

 the addition of the Zoomorphose, ibid., 1757; the third augmented by M. 

 Favaune, 2 vols, ibid., 1780, 



Arted. — Artedi (Peter), a Swedish naturalist, and a friend of 

 Linnaeus, born in 1705, drowned at Amsterdam in 1735. 



His work on Fishes was published by Linnaeus. " P. Artedi Ichtyologia 

 sive Opera Omnia de Piscibus," 1 vol. 8vo. Leyden, 1738. 



The edition of Walbaum, " Artedius Renovatus," 5 vols. Svo., Gripswald, 

 1788 — 69 is greatly augmented, but by an injudicious compiler. 

 AscAN. — Ascanius (Peter), Professor at Copenhagen. 



Author of five numbers in folio, the first containing " Coloured Illustrations 

 of the Natural History of the North," from 1767 to 1 779. 



AuDEB. — Audebert (Jeau-Baptistc), a painter at Paris, born in 

 Kochefort, 1759, died 1800. 



"Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis," folio, Paris, 1800, with 

 sixty-two plates, drawn from the stuffed specimens in the Museum. 

 " Oiseaux Dor^s ou h. Retlets M^talliques," 2 vols, folio, Paris, 1802. 

 AuD. — AuDOUiN (Jean- Victor). Doctor of Medicine, sub-librarian 

 to the Institute of France, assistant naturalist to Messrs. de Lamarck 

 and Latreille at the Jardin du Roi, a member of various societies, 

 born in Paris, 27th of April 1797- 



"Anatomic d'une Larve Apode" (Conops), found in a Bombus lapidarius, by 

 Messrs. Lachat and Audouin, 1818. 



