Dr. J. E. Gray on a MS. of Laurence Theodore Gronov. 43 



paper has the same water-mark as the paper used in the printed 

 work above referred to, the possession of the original drawings 

 engraved in those works, and other particulars. 



I fixed the date above given, because several of the drawings 

 are marked " De la Targue genaannd van Nieuwland ad vivum 

 del. 1774," so that it could not have been prepared before that 

 year, and one is marked "J. J. Byland 1768." Gronovius died 

 in 1777. 



Since the above account was prepared, I have discovered the 

 following paragraph in the preface to Meuschen's ' Museum 

 GronovianuDi,^ according to which the collection of M. Laurence 

 Theodore Gronov was sold by public sale on Wednesday the 7th 

 of October and subsequent day, 1778. 



I do not find the MS. and collection referred to in the sale, so 

 that it was probably kept by the family, and from the appear- 

 ance of the box and the padlock on it which contained the 

 collection, it appears doubtful if it has been more than cursorily 

 examined since that period. The key appears to have been lost, 

 as the box has evidently been forced open. 



Speaking of the former possessor of the collection, he observes — 

 " Ingens studium per omnem fere vitam prsecipue nuper De- 

 fmictus hujus Thesauri Possessor collocavit in excolenda Ich- 

 tkyologia, suique indefessi laboris specimina abimde praebuit in 

 MuscEO Ichthyologico ante viginti annos edito, et in primo sui 

 Zoophylacii fasciculo a 1763, in lucem emisso ; unde prse ceteris 

 hsec Musaei Gronoviani pars Naturae Curiosorum alliciet atten- 

 tionem : tanto magis, quum in eadem Parte Regni Animalis pei-- 

 ficienda ad mortem suam usque incredibili diligentia perrexerit ; 

 quemadmodum docuif novum Systema Ichthyologicum MS. ab Eo 

 relictum, inque scriniis Ejus inventum, in quo multorum Piscium 

 imagines a prastantissimis artificibus depictce exstant, neque pauci 

 exsiccati Pisces novo huic operi sunt inserti, quos, licet in Musteo 

 et Zoophylacio Gronoviano sint descripti, frustra ideo in liocElencho 

 querent Historic Naturalis cultores." 



The MS. contains the following genera which are not in the 

 ' Zoophylacium ' ; the numbers are those in the MS. : — 



5. Pastinaca = Myliobates, Dum. 



6. Toi-pedo = Temera, Gray, and Narke, Kaup. 



7. Squalina = Squatina, Dum. 



12. Holocanthus = Ostracion §3. Zooph. ^Biodon, Linn. 



19. Callionymus. 



22. Oestrus = Sciaena, Cuv. 



24*. Boops. 



27. Sargus = Ephippus, Cuv. 



29. GonopteruB = Chelraon, Cuv. 



