462 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
Bronen.—Bronenisrt’ (Alexander), member of the Académie 
des Sciences, and professor of the Faculté des Sciences de Paris, and 
of the Jardin du Roi, born 1770. 
‘¢ Essai @’une Classification Naturelle des Reptiles,’’ 4to. Paris, 1805. 
I also quote his works on the Fossil Shells—‘‘ Coquilles Fossiles’’—both in 
the Annales du Museum, and our joint publication on the geography of the en- 
virons of Paris. I also refer to his 
‘* Histoire des Crustacés Fossiles,”’? 4to., published by him and M. Desmaret. 
Paris, 1812. 
Brouss.—Broussonnet (Pierre-Marie-Auguste ), perpetual secre- 
tary to the Societé d’Agriculture, and member of the Académie des 
Sciences; born 176], died 1807. I quote his 
‘* Memoire sur les Chiens de Mer,’’ in the Memoires de l’Académie des 
Sciences, 1780. Also his 
“* Ichtyologia,’’? 4to., of which but one decade was published. London and 
Paris, 1782. 
Brown Jam.—Brown (Patrick), an Irish physician, resident in Ja- 
maica. 
‘*The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica,’’ 1 vol. folio. London, 1756. 
Brown or br.—Brown (Peter), an English painter. 
‘* New Illustrations of Zoology,’’ 1 vol. 4to., London, 1776, with fifty co- 
loured plates of animals of various classes—all of them indifferently executed. 
Bruce (James), the celebrated Scotch traveller, born 1730, died 
1794. ‘ 
‘‘ Trayels in Abyssinia and to the Sources of the Nile.’? I quote the French 
translation, 5 vols. 4to. Paris 1790. 
Bruc.—Brveieres (Jean-Guillaume), a physician at Montpellier, 
anda traveller, born 1750, and died at Ancona on his return from 
Persia, 1799. I quote his : 
‘‘ Dictionnaire des Vers,’’ published in the Encyclopedie Methodique. But 
one volume 4to., has appeared. Paris, 1792. I also quote his 
‘‘ Figures de Vers,”’ for the same work, of which there are four. 
Brun.—Brunnick (Martin Thomas), a Danish naturalist. Profes- 
sor at Copenhagen. 
‘« Tethyologia Massiliensis,’’ &c., 1 vol. 8vo. Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1768, 
“¢ Entomologia sistens Insectorum Tabulas Systematicas,’’ Svo. Copenhagen, 
"1764. Also various Memoirs published among those of the Society of Sciences 
and of the Society of Natural History of Copenhagen. 
Bucuan.—Bucwanan (Dr. Frances Hamilton), a Scotch physician 
at Bengal, died 1829. 
Author of certain Memoirs in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and 
of a Journey from- Madras through the Mysore, Canary, &c., which contain 
several valuable observations. We are particularly indebted to him for 
‘¢ A Natural History of the Fishes of the Ganges,’’ 1 yol. 4to., with a great 
number of excellent plates. Edinburgh, 1822, 
Buckianp (William), professor of Geology at Oxford, author of 
the 
“ Relique Diluviane,’’ 4to., London, 1825, and of numerous Memoirs on 
fossils. 
Burr.—Burron (Georges-Louis-Leclere, Comte de), Intendant 
of the Jardin du Roi, and Treasurer of the Académie des Sciences, 
born 1707, died 1788. 
‘« Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la Description du Cabinet 
du Roi.’ I always quote the Paris edition of 1749—1789, in 36 vols, 4to., of 
