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A Memoir on the Proteus, in the Philosopliical Transactions. 

 ScHRCET. — ScHRCETER, (J. S.), Lutheran superintendent at Butt- 

 stedt in the Duchy of Weimar, born in 1735. Author of numerous 

 works on Conchyliology ; wo quote his 



" History of Frtsh -water Shells" (in German), 4to. Halle, 1979. 



ScHWEiG. — ScHWEiGGER (A. F.'j, a Prussian naturalist, who was 

 assassinated by his guide during a journey in the interior of Sicily. 



" Prodromus Monographiae Cheloniorum," in which he particularly describes 

 the new species in the Museum of Paris. It is published in the " Archives of 

 Koenij;sberg" for 1812. He has also given us 



" Observations during his Travels," in which he treats of the Corallines and 

 yellow Amber, 4to. Berlin, 1819. 



•'A Manual of the Invertebrate and Inarticulated Animals," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Leipzic, 1 820. 



SciLLA (Agostino), a Sicilian painter. 



La Vana Speculatione disingannata d<il Senso," 1 vol. 4to. Naples, 1670. 

 The first exact comparison of fossils with analogous recent bodies, that was 

 instituted. There is a Latin translation of this work in 4to. Rome, 1752. 



Scop. — Scopoli (J. A.), Professor of Botany and Chemistry at 

 Pavia, born in 1723, died in 1788. 



" Entomologia Carniolica," 1 vol., 8vo. Vindebonte, 1763. 

 " Delicise Flora: et Faunae Insubricae," with plates, 4 vols, folio. Ticini, 

 1786—1788. 



" Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem," 1 vol. 8vo. Pragte, 1777. 

 " Anni Historici-Naturales, V." Lipsiae, 1768 — 1772, united in 1 vol. 8vo. 

 He has also published some plates which are but little known, forming a 

 sequel to his " Entomologia Carniolica." 



ScoRESBY, an English navigator, who re-discovered Oriental 

 Greenland, and author of 



"Arctic Regions," &c., 1 vol., London, 1816, which contains many valuable 

 observations on the Cetacea. 



See. — Seba (Albert), a druggist of Amsterdam, born in 1665, 

 died in 1 736. Celebrated for his 



" Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio," 4 vols, 

 folio. Amsterdam, 1734, 1765. 



A work that I have frequently quoted, because it is enriched with numerous 

 and excellent plates ; the text, however, is of no authority whatever, being 

 written without accuracy or judgment. 

 Selby (P. J.) 



Authorof " Illustrations of British Ornithology," 8vo., Edinburgh, 1825, with 

 a very large atlas, the most magnificent work on Ornithology that e.xists [that of 

 an American, M. Audubon, excepted, which the BaroQ himself, in a late 

 report to the Institute, declares to be " the most magnificent monument the 

 arts have ever erected to the Science." — Eng. Ed.] 



He has also published various papers in the Zoological Journal, &c. 

 Senguerd. — Senguerdius (Wolferd). 



" Tractatus Physicus de Tarentula," 1 vol. 12rao. Lugduni Batavorum, 1688, 



Serres (Marcel de), Professor of Mineralogy to the Faculte des 

 Sciences of Montpellier. Author of 



" M<5moire sur les yeux composcis, et les yeux lisses des Insectes," with 

 plates, 1 vol. 8vo. Montpellier, 1813. 



Several Memoirs on the Anatomy of Insects, published in the Annales du 

 Museum. 

 Serv. — Serville, one of the writers for the Entomological De- 

 partment of the Faune Fran^aise, and of ihe Enc-yclopi die Melho- 

 dique. 



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