110 PIERRE BELON. 



bus Libri Duo, cum Eiconibus ad Vivam ipsorum 

 Effigiem, which he afterwards translated intoFrench^ 

 and with certain additions printed in three different 

 forms in 1555. A work on pines and other evergreen 

 trees^ De Arboribus ConiferiS;, also appeared in 1553, 

 as well as a dissertation on Egyptian antiquities. 

 Soon after he presented to the public his Obser- 

 vations de plusieurs Singularites et Choses memo- 

 rables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Judee, Egypte, Ara- 

 ble et autres Pays etranges, redigees en trois livres, 

 in which are many curious details on the subject 

 of geography, and on the manners of Eastern na- 

 tions. A treatise on birds was published at Paris in 

 J555 ; another, containing representations of animals 

 and plants observed in Arabia and Egypt, was put 

 forth in 1557; which in 1558 was succeeded by an 

 essay on the cultivation of plants. As a botanist, 

 Belon ranks not less highly than as a zoologist ; and, 

 to do honour to him in the former capacity, Plumier 

 has dedicated to his memory an American genus, 

 to which he has given the name of Belonia, 



HIPPOLITO SALVIANI. 



The Aquatilium Animalium Historiaof Salvianiis 

 chiefly remarkable for the beauty of its engravings, 

 some of which have scarcely been surpassed by the 

 efforts of modern art. The titlepage bears the date of 

 1554, but the work was not completed till 1558. It 

 contains descriptions of ninety-nine species of fishes, 

 each including the synonymy, the external appear- 

 ance of the animal, the places in which it occurs, its 

 habits, the manner in which it is caught and pre- 

 pared, and its medical properties. He also points 



