112 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Pinax / Rerum Naturalium / Britannicarum, / continens / 

 Vegetabilia, Animalia, / et / Fossilia, / In hac Insula reperta 

 inchoatus / Editio Secunda. / Auctore / Christophoro Merrett,/ 

 Medicinae Doctore utriusque Societatis / Regiae Socio primoque 

 Mussel Har- / veani Custode. / (quotation from Hippocrates) 

 Londinl, / Typls T. Roycroft, Impensis Cave Pulleyn, Prostat 

 apud / Sam Thomson in vico vulgo dicto Duck lane, 1667. / 

 1 vol., small 8vo. 



Collation : pp. 2, Title & Imprimatur. + pp. 10, Epist. 

 Dedicat. + pp. 20, Epist. ad Lect. + pp. 223 + p. 1. 



The other, a mere reprint of the original edition : — 



Pinax / Rerum Naturalium / Britannicarum, / continens / 

 Vegetabilia, Animaha, / et / Fossilia, / In hac Insula reperta 

 inchoatus. / Auctore / Christoporo Merrett, / Medicinse Doctore 

 utriusque Societatis / Regise Socio promoque Mussel Har- / 

 veani Custode. / (quotation from Hippocrates) Londini, / 

 Typis T. Roycroft, Impensis Cave Pulleyn. / MDCLXVII. 



1 vol., small 8vo. Collation as above. 



It will be noticed that the date of this last edition, unlike 

 that of the first, and the " editio secunda," is in Roman, not 

 Arabic, figures. 



(Engelmann gives an Edition of 1704. N.S.) 



Although there appears to be no evidence that Merrett 

 pubhshed any edition of the " Pinax " later than 1667, he cer- 

 tainly contemplated doing so, and in August, 1668, he writes 

 Sir T. Browne that : " Besides those mentioned in ye pinax 

 I have 100 to add & ... I doe entreat this favour off yu 

 to inform me fuller off those unknown things ..." and in 

 response to this request Sir Thomas Browne placed at his 

 disposal the notes which he had prepared " of many animals 

 in these parts whereof 3 years agoe a learned gentleman of 

 this Country wished me to give him some account, which while 

 I was doing ye gentleman my good friend died." 



Christopher Merrett, who, like so many of the earher 

 ornithologists, was by profession a physician, was born at 

 Winchcomb, in Gloucestershire, on Feb. 16th, 1614. In 

 1631 he became a member of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, and 

 removed to Oriel College in 1633. He took his B.A. degree 

 in 1635, and then, devoting himself to the study of medicine, 



