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Franckfort, 1810. The first volume contains the terrestrial birds by Wolf; the 
second the water-birds by Meyer. This work is filled with excellent obser- 
vations. 
Mie.—Micer (Felix), a naturalist at Paris. 
‘* Memoire sur les Larves des Insectes Coléoptéres Aquatiques,”’ jinserted in 
the fourteenth volume of the Annales du Museum. 
Mrx.—Mrxat (I. C.) a Bohemian naturalist. 
‘* Monographia Bombyliorum Bohemiz,’’ with plates, Syo. Prague, 1796. 
Miter (J.S.), an English naturalist. 
‘* Natural History of the Crinoides,’’ and a ‘‘ Memoir on the Belemnites,” 
4to. Bristol, 1821. In the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 
second series, vol. II, part I. 
Mircuitt, an American naturalist and physician. 
I chiefly quote his work on the ‘‘ Fishes of New York,’’ in the Trans. of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of New York. He has also published other 
Memoirs in the Annals of the New York Lyceum, and in the Journ. of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Moesr.—Mornnine (P. H. G.), a physician at Jever. 
‘¢ Avium Genera,’’ 8vo. Aurich, 1752. 
Mouin—Mouna (the Abbé J.1.), an ecclesiastic of Chili, resi- 
dent in Italy. 
‘* Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle du Chili,’’? in Lafin, and translated into 
French by Gruvel, 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1789. This work was written in Italy 
from memory, and contains many doubtful passages. 
Mott. (J. P. C. de), see Ficurst. 
Monrac.—Monracue (George), an English naturalist. 
Author of descriptions of various species of Birds, Fishes, Mollusea and Crus- 
tacea, in the Transactions of the Linnean and Wernerian Societies of London, 
MonreeRE, a physician of Paris, who died in the colonies. 
I quote his ‘*‘ Mémoire sur les Vers de terre,’’ published in the Mémoires du 
Muséum. 
Montr.—Montrort (Denis de), a singular man who styled himself 
an ancient naturalist of the King of Holland; he perished through 
want in the streets of Paris in 1820 or 1821. I principally quote his 
‘* Conchyliologie Systematique,’’ a sort of Genera Conchyliorum, where the 
genera are extremely numerous, and represented by wood cuts, executed by the 
author, in as exact a manner as can be done by that species of engraying, 
There are but two volumes 8vo., which contain the Univalyes only, Paris 
1808, 1810. 
He is also the author of the four first volumes of the ‘‘ Histoire Naturelle des 
Mollusques,’’ that form a sequel to Sonnini’s Buffon, Paris, 1802, in which he 
has inserted apocryphal figures. They merely contain the generalia and the 
Cephalopoda. 
Moa. Tanp.—Moauin-Tannon (A.), a physician of Montpellier, 
Professor at Marseilles. 
‘¢ Monographie de la famille des Hirudinées,” 4to. Montpellier, 1826, 
Moreau bE Jonnes, corresponding member of the Institute. 
Quoted as author of several Memoirs on the animals of the Antilles. 
Morrey, (C. F. A.) a naturalist of Belgium. 
‘¢ De Lumbrici Terrestris Historia Naturali nec non Anatomia,” 4to. Brus- 
sels, 1829. 
Movurr.—Movrret (Thomas), an English naturalist, died about 
1600. 
“‘ Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum,” 1 yol. folio, with five 
hundred wood cuts. London, 1634, 
