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His first work, less known than his others, is a Latin treatise on fishes, 

 De Romanis piscibus Libellus ad ludovicum Borbonium. 



Peter Gilles, born at Alby, in 1490, was sent by Francis I. to the 

 Levant, but having no support, he found it necessary to enrol himself in 



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Ed. Wotton, an Oxford physician, author of a work entitled, On the 

 Differences of Animals ; but it is merely a compilation from the ancients, 

 without containing any thing new. 



The Author, after mentioning Loricerus, whose work he disposes of 

 with a few unfavourable expressions, adds, that the authors whose works 

 are described after those of Aristotle and Theophrastus up to the present 

 moment, were of very little value, and he observes that it was not until 

 about the middle of the sixteenth century that the men sprang up who 

 laid the foundation for modern Ichthyology. 



Peter Belon, the first of the three authors alluded to, was born in 1518 ; 

 and studied in-'Germany: after travelling in Italy and the Levant, he 

 returned to Paris-in 1550, and he obtained from Charles IX. a place in the 

 Chateau de Madrid, at the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, where he was 

 assassinated in- 1564. He published four works, and their particular 

 object is to give the natural history of foreign sea fishes. 



Hippolyte";Salviani, a physician, born in 1513, is author of a work 

 with beautiful' and exact plates on a large scale. 



Wm. Roudelet, born at Montpellier, in 1507- He has left us wood 

 engravings of T sea fishes, much more beautiful and exact than any of his 

 predecessors,/ "' 



Conrad Gesner, a Swiss, born in 1516; he left five large volumes on 

 the history of" animals, and of fishes especially, illustrating those of 

 Venice, England, and Germany. 



Ulysses Androvandi, a Bolognese, devoted his fortune to the illus- 

 tration of natural history. He was born in 1527- 



Andrew Thevet, a Grey Friar, who flourished in 1550, wrote a cele- 

 brated book entitled Singularities of Antarctic France, which name he 

 applied to Brazil. 



John de Lery, a Protestant minister, a traveller to Brazil, who gives 

 an account of its fishes in his voyage. 



Charles de l'Echusa, well known as Chiseus, born in Arras, published 

 some plates of the Chundra, Diodons, and a few others. 



John Delaet, born at Antwerp, at the end of the 16th century, a 

 splendid promoter of natural history. 



John Eusebius Nieremberg, a Jesuit, born in Madrid 1590, published 

 an account of a great number of fishes in his work, " Foreign Natural 

 History." 



Francis Hermandez, a Spanish physician to Philip II, composed a 

 natural history of Mexico, which, however, came ultimately through 

 other hands, and in piece-meal. 



William Pison, a physician who accompanied a Dutch expedition to 

 Brazil in 1640. He was assisted by Margrave. 



James Bontius, a physician of Batavia in 1625, gave descriptions of 

 the fishes of that country. This work was enlarged by Nieuhoff, a 

 native of Bentheim, in Westphalia. 



John Baptist Durtxe, a Dominican monk, a missionary to the 

 Antilles, described the Antilles, and particularly the fishes of the lakes, 

 rivers, &c. 



Rochfort, a Rotterdam Protestant minister, also gave the world a 

 history, natural and moral, of the Antilles, 



