460 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
Bon, or BonAn.—BonannI, or rather Buonannt (Filippo), a Jesuit, 
Professor at the College of Rome, born 1638, died 1725. He was 
an assiduous observer, but we have only quoted his work entitled 
‘‘ Recreatio Mentis et Oculi in Observatione Animalium Testaceorum,’’ 1 vol. 
4to. Rome, 1654. 
Bonar. or Cu. Bonar.—Bonaparte (Charles Lucien), Prince of 
Musignano, son of the Prince of Canino. 
Author of an excellent Supplement to Wilson’s American Ornithology, and 
of several memoirs in the Annals of the Lyceum of New York. 
Bonnat.—BonnaTERRE (the Abbé), Professor of Natural History 
at Tulle. 
He superintended the engraving of the plates of the Vertebrata for the En- 
cyclopedie Methodique, and gave the text for those of the Reptiles and Fishes. 
His figures generally are copied from authors, and not always judiciously se- 
lected. 
BongLt.—BoneEwu (Francesco), director of the Cabinet of Natural 
History. and Professor of Zoology at Turin. 
‘Catalogue of the Birds of Piedmont,’’ pamphlet, 4to., 1811. 
«« Entomoligical Observations,’’ in two parts, published in the Memoirs of the 
Academy of Sciences of Turin. They treat of the genus Carabus of Linnzus, 
or of the Carabici. 
He also published other Memoirs, of which we may particularly notice the 
‘‘ Descrizione di sei nuovi Insetti Lepidopteri della Sardegna,’’ in the thirtieth 
volume of the same collection. 
Bonnet (Charles), a celebrated philosopher and naturalist of Ge- 
neva, born in 1720, died 1793. We only quote his 
“ Traité d’Insectologie,’’ 2 vols. 8vo., Paris, 1745, and in the first volume of 
his works in 4to. Neufchatel, 1769. 
Bont.—Bontivus (Jacques), physician general at Batavia in the 
commencement of the seventeenth century. 
“ Histoire Naturalis et Medicze Indiz Orientalis, libri VI,’’ printed as a se- 
quel to the work of Pison, ‘‘ De Inde utriusque re Naturali et Medica.’’ 
Bor.assE (William), an English ecclesiastic, curate in the county 
of Cornwall, born in 1696, died 1772. 
“ Natural History of Cornwall,’’ 1 vol. folio. Oxford, 17598. 
Born (Ignatius de), a Transylvanian naturalist and celebrated mi- 
neralogist, born 1742, died 1791. 
“Testacea Musei Cesarei Vindobonensis,’’ 1 yol. folio. Vienna, 1780. 
Bory-Saint- VINCENT, a naturalist of Bourdeaux, who accompanied 
Captain Baudin to the Isle of France, and late president of the Com- 
mission of Natural History in the Morea. 
“Voyage aux quatres principales isles d’Afrique.’’ This work, which we 
have quoted, contains various interesting zoological observations. 
“Essai d’une Classification des animaux Microscopiques,’’ Svo. Paris, 1826. 
He also furnished the explanations of the latter part of the plates of the ar- 
ticle Vers, in the Encyclopédie Méthodique. 
“"Essai Monographique sur les Oscillaires,’’? 8vo. Paris, 1827. 
Various articles in the Dictionnaire Classique d’Histoire Naturelle, of which 
he is the principal editor. 
Bosc (Louis), member of the Académie des Sciences. 
Author of numerous memoirs in the Actes de la Societé de 1’Histoire Na- 
turelle, the Bulletin des Sciences, &c., and of the Histoires Naturalles des Vers, 
des Coquilles et des Crustacés, which form a sequel to Déteryille’s small edi- 
tion of Buffon, 
