Additional Notes. 505 



by Frisch, Rosenhof, Kleeman, Roesel, Sulzer, 

 ScHAFER, and several others, of Germany ; and also by Pro- 

 fessor Pallas, whose Icoms Tnse<:taium is a very valuable 

 work. 



BONNETT. p. 123. 



Charles Bonnett was born in 1720, at Geneva, where 

 he died in 1703. He was one of the most distinguished men 

 of the eighieenlh century. His inquiries and publications on 

 Insects and the Vermes are greatly esteemed, and have been 

 much celebrated among naturalists. 



Vermes, p. 124. 



Besides the writers on the Vermes noticed in the page above- 

 mentioned, this class of animals has been treated, either ge- 

 nerally or in part, by Joh. A. Murray, Jac. Theod. 

 Klein, Nath. Goth. Leske, and Zeder, all of Ger- 

 many, and by the still more celebrated Spallanzani, of 

 Italy. The last mentioned writer paid particular attention to 

 the Corallinesy and other marine productions, and to the In^ 

 fusoria. 



Number of Birds known, p. 125. 



According to the latest accounts given by M. La Cepede, 

 of France, who has given, as was before observed, a new 

 arrangement of Birds, there are now known two thomandi 

 Jive hundred and thirty -six species. 



Zootomy and Physiology. 



The inquiries of the naturalists of the eighteenth century, 

 respecting the structure of different animals, and the functions 

 of their respective organs, may be considered as forming one 

 of the most remarkable distinctions of modern times. Among 

 these, the first and second Monro, William and John 

 Hunter, Hewson, Cruikshank, Collins, Stubbs, 

 Coleman and Home, of Great-Britain; Daubenton, 



