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CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS, 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
In explaining the abbreviations employed to indicate the numerous 
writers necessarily referred to in this work, we have embraced the op- 
portunity of giving the reader a general idea of their profession, the 
period of their birth and decease, and of the character of their 
writings. 
Asitp.—ApritpGaarpr (Peter-Christian), a Danish naturalist; 
Professor at Copenhagen, died in 1808. 
One of the continuers of the Zoologia Danica of Miiller, and author of va- 
rious Memoirs published among those of the Society of Natural History, and 
of The Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, as well as those of the So- 
ciety of Naturalists of Berlin. 
ACAD, DEs Sc. 
I thus quote the ‘‘ Mémoirs de l’Académie des Sciences’? of Paris, of which 
one quarto volume was annually published from 1700 to 1790. 
T have also occasionally quoted the ‘‘ Memoirs des Sayants Etrangers,’’ 
eleven volumes, from 1750 to 1786. 
I have also frequently quoted the ‘‘ Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin,”’ 
from 1819, and the new ones of the Academia Nature Curiosorum of Bonn, 
from Vo}. IX, at which epoch they assumed their new form. 
For those of the Academy of Petersburg, see Peterob. or Petrop. 
Acosra or rather Menpez pa Cosra (Emmanuel), a Portuguese 
naturalist, resident in London. 
‘ Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britannie,’’ 1 vol. 4to. London, 1778. 
_, Avanson (Michael), born at Aix in 1727, and died in Paris 1806, 
Member of the Académie des Sciences, and one of the first natu- 
ralists who attempted the classification of Shells according to their 
animals. 
“‘ Histoire Naturelle des Coquillages du Sénégal,’’ 1775, 1 vol. 4to. 
Agassis, a German naturalist. 
Editor of the ‘‘ Fishes of Spix,’’ and author of Memoirs in the Isis. 
Anr.—AHRENS. 
“* Aucusti Abrensii, Fauna Insectorum Europe, fascic. I—XII.” 
Acs. or AvBrn.—A.Bin (Eleazar), an English painter. 
‘“‘A Natural History of Birds,’’3 vols. 4to. London, 1731—38, contain- 
ing 306 indifferent coloured plates. 
‘A Natural History of Spiders,’’ 1 vol. 4to, with plates. London, 1736. 
Aupinus (Bernard-Sigefroy), Professor of Leyden, and one of the 
great anatomists of the eighteenth century, born at Frankfort in 
1697, died in 1770. 
We have only had occasion to quote him for the description of the Penna- 
tulee inserted in the ‘‘ Annotationes Academice,’’ 8 Nos. in 4to. Leyden, 
1754—1768. 
