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486 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
Mavp.—Mavpovuit—(R. J. E.), a physician at Paris, who died in 
1792. 
Author of the ‘* Dictionnaire des Oiseaux” of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. 
Mavupert.—Mavrertius (P. L. M. de). member of the Acadé- 
mie des Sciences, president of that of Berlin, &c., born 1671, died 
1759. An astronomer and geometrician, also author of certain 
Memoirs on Natural History. 
“« Expériences sur les Scorpions,’’ in the Mémoires de l’Acad. de Sciences, 
1731. 
Maurice DE Nassau (Prince), or rather Count John Maurice de 
Nassau-Siegen, born 1604, the Dutch governor of Brazil from 1637 
to 1644. 
He encouraged the labours of Marcgrave in that country, and drew several 
fishes which have been engraved and published in the Icthyology of Block. He 
died in the service of Brandebourg in 1679. 
Mecxet (J. F.), Professor at Halle. We quote his 
‘‘ Materials for Comparative Anatomy” (in German), Svo. Leipzic, 1808. 
‘¢ A Treatise on the Ornithorhynchus,” folio. Leipzic, 1826. 
Merc.—MEGERLE DE Muutriexp (J. C.) 
Author of ‘‘ A Classification of Bivalve Shells,” inserted in the Magazine of 
the Society of the Friends of Nature of Berlin. 
Menuuts (Edward). 
‘¢ De Distomate Hepatico et Lanceolato,” folio. Gottingen, 1825. 
Meric.—Meicen (J. G.), a German naturalist. 
This author has published (in German), a work onthe ‘‘ Diptera of Europe,” 
now forming 5 vols. Svo., accompanied with plates representing at least one spe- 
cies of each genus, with the details of their characters. 
M. Baumauer published an extract from the same work, under the title of a 
‘¢ Nouvelle Classification des Mouches 4 deux ailes,”’ 8vyo. Paris, 1800, 
Mem. DE La Soc. p’Hist. Nar. 
‘‘ Mémoires de la Société d’ Histoire Naturelle de Paris,’’ 1 vol. Svo., 1799, 
the only one that appeared. 
There is another work with a similar title, in 3 vols. 4to., 1823, et seq. 
Merian (M.S8.), a German lady established in Holland, born 
1647 ; died 1717. She has left us two posthumous works, remarkable 
for the beauty of the drawings: 
‘De Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensis,’’ 1 vol. 
folio. The Hague, 1726. 
‘© Histoire des Insectes d’Europe, translated into French by Mairet, 1 vol. 
folio. Amsterdam, 1730. 
Merr.—MeErreEo (Blaise), born at Bremen, Professor of Natural 
History at Marburg. 
“ Avium Rariorum et minus Cognitarum, Icones et Descript.,’’ four Nos, 
4to. Leipzic, 1786. , 
‘« Materials for the Natural History of Reptiles’ (in German), 2 Nos. 4to. 
Duisbourg and Lemgo, 1790. All that it contains relates to Serpents. 
“Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum,’’ in Latin and German, 1 vol. 8vo. 
Marburg, 1820. 
MesnarD.—MEsNARD DE LA Grove, naturalist of Angers, and my 
adjunct in the Collége de France, died in 1827. . 
Author of various Memoirs in the Annales du Museum, Journal de Physique, 
&e. 
Meyer and Wotr. 
‘‘Taschenbuch,” &c., or Almanack of the Birds of Germany, 2 vols. 8yo., 
