GENERATION OF ANIMALS 



in a few cases quotes their Latin versions. Aubert 

 and Wimmer, in their Leipzig edition published in 

 1860, took into account throughout the commentary 

 of Michael of Ephesus and Gaza's Latin translation, 

 but they too reUed upon Bekker for the mss. readings. 

 The first to go back again direct to the mss. was F. 

 Susemihl," at whose request in 1885 By water and 

 \ iteUi inspected a number of selected places in 

 Aristotle's zoological works in the mss. Z and S respect- 

 ively, and of these fourteen are places in G.A. The 

 majority of these, however, are of minor importance. 

 A really serious attempt to revise the text throughout 

 on the basis of a new collation of the mss. was made 

 about 1913 by K. E. Bitterauf in preparation for a 

 new Teubner edition, which however was never 

 published.* In all, Bitterauf enumerates 31 mss. 

 containing G.A., and of these he collated three in full 

 himself from photographs (Z, Y and E), and a single 

 selected Book (not the same Book in each case) in 

 eight more (of which m was one). He also had at 

 his disposal collations of seven others, of which five 

 were apparently collated direct by Hugo Tschierschky 



" Kritische Studien zti den zoologischen Schri/ten des 

 Aristoteles, in Rhein. Mus. XL (1885), 563 ff., and a very 

 convenient summary of his proposals there made in Bursian, 

 XLII, 345 f. 



* But he published some of his results in two preliminary 

 pamphlets : (1) Der Schlussteil der arlstotelischen Biologie : 

 Beitrage zur Textgeschichte und Textkritik der Schrift " De 

 generatione animalium." (Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum 

 Jahresbericht des kgl. humanistischen Gymnasiums Kempten 

 fiir das Schuljahr 1912/13). Kempten im Allgau, 1913. 

 (2) Neve Textstudien zum Schlussteil der aristotelischen Bio- 

 logie. (Ibid., 1913/14.) Kempten im Allgau, 1914. These 

 are the source of the readings recorded throughout the text 

 where they differ from Bekker's apparatus. 



