462 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 



Brongn. — Brongniart (Alexander), membei' of the Academie 

 des Sciences, and professor of the Faculte des Sciences de Paris, and 

 of the Jardin du Hoi, born 1770- 



" Essai d'une Classification Naturelle des Reptiles," 4to. Paris, 1805. 

 I also quote his works on the Fossil Shells — " Coquilles Fossiles" — both in 

 the Annales du Museum, and our joint publication on the geography of the en- 

 virons of Paris. I also refer to his 



" Histoire des Crustac^s Fossiles," 4to., published by him and M. Desmaret. 

 Paris, 1812. 



Brouss. — Broussonnet (Pierre-Marie-Auguste), perpetual secre- 

 tary to the Societe d'Agriculture, and member of the Academie des 

 Sciences; born 1761, died 1807. I quote his 



" Memoire sur Ics Chiens de Mer," in the Memoires de I'Acad^mie des 

 Sciences, 1780. Also his 



" Ichtyologia," 4to., of which but one decade was published. London and 

 Paris, 1782. 



Brown Jam. — Brown (Patrick), an Irish physician, resident in Ja- 

 maica. 



"The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica," 1 vol. folio. London, 1756. 

 Brown or Br. — Brown (Peter), an English painter. 



"New Illustrations of Zoology," 1 vol. 4to., Loudon, 1776, with fifty co- 

 loured plates of animals of various classes — all of them indifferently executed. 



Bruce (James), the celebrated Scotch traveller, born 1730, died 

 1794. 



" Travels in Abyssinia and to the Sources of the Nile." I quote the French 

 translation, 5 vols. 4to. Paris 1790. 



Brug. — Brugieres (Jean-Guillaume), a physician at Montpellier, 

 and a traveller, born 1750, and died at Ancona on his return from 

 Persia, 1799. 1 quote his 



*' Dictionnaire des Vers," published in the Eucyclopedie Methodique. But 

 one volume 4to., has appeared. Paris, 1792. I also quote his 

 " Figures de Vers," for the same work, of whicli there are four. 



Brun. — Brunnick (Martin Thomas), a Danish naturalist. Profes- 

 sor at Copenhagen. 



" Icthyologia Massiliensis," &c., 1 vol. 8vo. Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1768, 

 " Entomologia sistens Insectorum Tabulas Systematicas," 8vo. Copenhagen, 

 1764. Also various Memoirs published among those of the Society of Sciences 

 and of the Society of Natural History of Copenhagen. 



BucHAN. — Buchanan (Dr. Frances Hamilton), a Scotch physician 

 at Bengal, died 1829. 



Author of certain Memoirs in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, and 

 of a Journey from Madras through the Mysore, Canary, &c., which coutain 

 several valuable observations. We are particularly indebted to him for 



" A Natural History of the Fishes of the Ganges," 1 vol. 4to., with a great 

 number of excellent plates. Edinburgh, 1822, 



BucKLAND (William), professor of Geology at Oxford, author of 

 the 



" Reliquse Diluvianas," 4to., London, 1825, and of numerous Memoirs on 

 fossils. 

 Buff. — Buffon (Georges-Louis-Leclerc, Comte de), Intendant 

 of the Jardin du Rui, and Treasurer of the Academie des Sciences, 

 born 1707, died 1788. 



" Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la Description du Cabinet 

 du Roi." I always quote the Paris edition of 1749 — 17S9, in 36 vols. 4to., of 



