486 CATALOGUE OP AUTHORS. 



Maud. — Mauduit — (R. J. E.), a physician at Paris, who died in 

 1792. 



Author of til e " Dictionnaire ties Oiseaux" of the Encyclopedie Mothodique. 



Maupert. — Maupertius (P. L. M. de). member of the Acade- 



mie des Sciences, president of that of Berlin, &c., born 1671, died 



1759. An astronomer and geometrician, also author of certain 



Memoirs on Natural History. 



" Experiences sur les Scorpions," in the Mcmoires <le I'Acad. de Sciences, 

 1731. 



Maurice de Nassau (Prince), or rather Count John Maurice de 

 Nassau-Siegen, born 1604, the Dutch governor of Brazil from 1637 

 to 1644. 



He encouraged the labours of Marcgravc in that country, and drew several 

 fishes which have been engraved and published in the Icthyology of Block. He 

 died ill the service of Braudebourg in 1679. 



Meckel (J. F.), Professor at Halle. We quote his 



" Materials for Comparative Anatomy" (in German), 8vo. Leipzic, 1808. 

 «' A Treatise on the Ornithorhynchus," folio, Leipzic, 1826. 



Meg. — Megerle de Muhlfield (J. C.) 



Author of "A Classification of Bivalve Shells," inserted in the Magazine of 

 the Society of the Friends of Nature of Berlin. 

 Mehlis (Edward). 



" De Distomate Hepatico et Lanceolato," folio. Gottingen, 1825. 

 Meig. — Meigen (J. G.), a German naturalist. 



This author has published (in German), a work on the " Diptera of Europe," 

 now forming 5 vols. Svo., accompanied with plates representing at least one spe- 

 cies of each genus, with the details of their characters. 



M. Baumauer published an extract from the same work, under the title of a 

 " Nouvelle Classification des Mouches a deux ailes," Svo. Paris, 1800. 



Mem. de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. 



" Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris," 1 vol. 8vo., 1799, 

 the only one that appeared. 



There is another work with a similar title, in 3 vols. 4to., 1823, et seq. 

 Merian (M. S.), a German lady established in Holland, born 

 1 647 ; died I717. She has left us two posthumous works, remarkable 

 for the beauty of the drawings : 



" De Generatione et INIetamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensis," 1 vol. 

 folio. The Hague, 1726. 



" Histoire des Insectes d'Europe, translated into French by Mairet, 1 vol. 

 folio. Amsterdam, 1730. 



Merr. — Merrem (Blaise), born at Bremen, Professor of Natural 

 History at Marburg. 



" Avium Rariorum et minus Cognitarum, Icones et Descript.," four Nos. 

 4to. Leipzic, J 786. 



" Materials for the Natural History of Reptiles" (in German), 2 Nos. 4to. 

 Duisbourg and Lemgo, 1790. All that it contains relates to Serpents. 



" Teutamen Systematis Amphibiorum," in Latin and German, 1 vol. Svo. 

 Marburg, 1820. 



Mesnard. — Mesnard de la Groye, naturalist of Angers, and my 

 adjunct in the College de France, died in 1827. 



Author of vai-ious Memoirs iu the Annales du Museum, Journal de Physique, 

 &c. 

 Meyer and Wolf. 



" Taschenbucb," &c., or Almanack of the Birds of Germany, 2 vols. Svo., 



