HIPPOLITO SALVIANI. Ill 



out the passages in Aristotle, Pliny, and other an- 

 cient writers, who have spoken of them, and to the 

 observations of these authors adds many excellent 

 ones of his own ; so that the work, on account of the 

 general accuracy of the plates and descriptions, is 

 one that may be considered indispensable to the 

 modern ichthyologist. 



Salviani was born in 1514, at Citta di Castello in 

 Umbria. His family was noble. After finishing 

 his studies, he settled at Rome, where he practised 

 medicine, and delivered public lectures. The friend- 

 ship of Cardinal Cervini obtained for him the ap- 

 pointment of physician to the pope, Julius III. The 

 death of this personage, and that of Cervini, who had 

 been elevated to the apostolic chair, which, however, 

 he occupied only three weeks, were not productive of 

 any serious disadvantage to him, for he was continued 

 in his offices by Paul IV., to whom he dedicated his 

 work. He died at Rome, in 1572, at the age of 

 fifty-eight. 



GUILLAUME RONDELET. 

 RoNDELET greatly surpassed Gesner, Belon, and 

 Salviani, in the extent of his knowledge as an ich- 

 thyologist ; and although his figures, being only 

 wood-cuts, are inferior in beauty to the copperplate- 

 engravings of the last of these authors, they are 

 yet more correct in the characteristic details. His 

 work is entitled De Piscibus Marinis Libri XVIII., 

 in quibus vivse piscium imagines expositae sunt, 

 and was published at Lyons in 1554. A second part 

 appeared in 1555, under the name of Universse 

 Aquatilium Historise Pars Altera, cum veris ipsorum 

 Imaginibus. The first part treats of marine ani- 



