ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. xv 



as to baits, hooks, flies, worms, etc., and a varity of other 

 interesting information to the learner, as well as to the most 

 practised angler. London, Orlando Hodgson, [1825 ?] pp. 16. 



Aurivillius (J.) Dissertatio philosophica de natura piscium 

 in genere et piscatura quam...praeside...M. Magno Celsio... 

 publico examini sebmittit J. A., Holmiae, 1676. 4. 



Avon. The Avon a poem. Page 19, line 26, for London, 

 1798, read Birmingham, Baskerville ; London, Dodsley, 1758. 

 Bailey's new and complete art of angling containing all the 

 necessary instructions for that pleasing and fashionable amuse- 

 ment,... also, several curious methods of angling not generally 

 known; together with an account of the different worms... 

 to which is added, a correct abstract of the several acts of 

 Parliament relating to angling. London : printed and sold 

 by J. Bailey, 116 Chancery Lane. (n. d.) pp. 24. 12. 



[ With folding frontispiece of lady and gentleman punt fishing 

 with rude cuts of fish forming a border. Other copies have the 

 title : " Bailey's complete art of angling," etc., and the frontispiece 

 without border. They are otherwise identical. See page 38.] 



Barker (Thomas). The art of angling. Page 21, line 35, for 

 Gawtrees read Gawtress. 



Bassus ( Cassianus). Geoponika. Geoponicorum, sive de re 

 rustica, libri xx. Cassiano Basso scholastico collectore. Antea 

 Constantino Porphyrogenneto a quibusdam adscripti. Graece 

 et Latine. Cantab, et London, Churchill, 1704. 8.; denuo 

 recensiti et illustrati ab Jo. Nic. Niclas. Lipsiae, 1781. 8. 



[ The Roman writers on agriculture confine themselves to the 

 notice of vivaria, and say nothing on the mode of capturing their 

 inhabitants, but in this Greek compilation, made in the beginning of 

 the tenth century by one Cassianus Bassus, though formerly attrib- 

 uted to one of the Constantines ( Pogonatus or Porphyrogenitus) 

 we find a book devoted to fishing and baits. This is Book xx which 

 has 46 short chapters, extracted from Florentinus, Oppian, Demo- 

 critus, Tarentinus, Dydimus, etc., "Concerning fish-ponds and the 

 feeding of fish therein, the bringing them into one spot, the taking 

 of them and the composition of all kinds of baits." Chapter 17 will 

 serve as a specimen : " Take three limpets and having taken out the 

 fish inscribe on the shell the words, ' The God of armies,' and you 

 will immediately see the fish come to the same place in a suprising 

 manner." This compilation no doubt found its way to Western 

 Europe after the fall of the Eastern Empire and the first'edition in 

 the original Greek was Basiliae, Winter, [1538]. 8vo. "The work 

 had been published in Latin, "J. Cornario medico physico inter- 

 prete," during the previous year, at Venice and again at Basle, where 

 editions were also issued in 1540, and other years. The best edition 

 in Greek and Latin is that edited by R. Needham noted above. 

 There were Italian translations by N. Vitelli, Venetia, 1542. 8vo., 



