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the Birds of the Netherlands ”’ (in Dutch), folio, with remarkably beautiful plates. 
The last numbers are by Houttyn. Amsterdam, 1770, et seq. 
OcuseNH.—OCcHSENHEIMER (Ferdinand). 
His work written in German on the ‘‘ Lepidoptera of Europe,’’ is the best 
that has been published with respect to critical accuracy and the descriptions of 
the species. The first volume appeared at Leipzic in 1806. ‘The one he is 
about to publish will contain the Noctue. 
Opier (Auguste). 
“* Mémoire sur la Composition Chimique des parties cornées des Insectes,’’ 
inserted in the first volume of the ‘‘ Mémoires de la Soc. d’Hist. Nat.’ 4to, 
1823. 
Oxen, a German naturalist of Fribourg in Brisgau, established at 
Jena. 
‘* Philosophy of Nature,’’ 3 vols. Svo. Jena, 1809. 
“A Treatise on Natural History,’’ of which the Zoology forms the third 
part, in 2 vols. 8vo., with an Atlas. Jena, 1816. 
‘* A Natural History for Schools,’? 1 vol. Jena, 1821. 
“« Esquisse de Systéme d’Anatomie, de Physiologie, et d’Histoire Naturelle.”’ 
8vo. Paris, 1821. 
He is the principal editor of the Isis, a journal which abounds in important 
articles relative to natural history. 
Otarsen (Eggert), or Erard Oxavius, a naturalist of Iceland, 
born 1726, died 1768. 
Jointly with Biorn PoveLsEN, or PAvti, the first physician of that island, 
who died in 1778, author of a ‘¢ Journey in Iceland,’’ printed in 1772, I quote 
the French Translation, 5 vols., 8vo., with an atlas. Paris, 1802. 
Ourvi (The Abbé Joseph). 
‘* Zoologica Adriatica,’’ 1 vol. S8vo., with plates. Bassano, 1792. 
It contains excellent observations ou the Mollusca and Crustacea. 
Oxiv.—Otivier (Antoine-Guillaume), member of the Académie 
des Sciences, Professor of Zoology to the Ecole Véterinaire of Al- 
fort, &c., born at Draguignan, 1756, died 1814. 
‘«Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes’’ (Coleoptera), 5 vols. 
folio, with coloured plates. Paris, 1789—1808. 
Insects of the Wucyclopédie Methodique, from the fourth volume of the Na- 
tural History to the eighth inclusively. 
‘¢ Voyage dans !Empire Ottoman, l’Egypte et la Perse,’’ 3 vols. 4to., with 
plates. Paris, 1807. It contains interesting species of several classes of ani- 
mals. 
Omauius pE Hatuoy, governor of the province of Namur, and a 
learned geologist. 
Opret (Michael), a Bavarian naturalist, who died in 18—., 
‘* Sur la Classification des Reptiles.’? The first Memoir is on the Ophidia, 
the second on the Batrachia, published in the Annales du Muséum, 
‘““The Orders, Families, and Genera of Reptiles”’ (in German), 4to. Mu- 
nich, 1811. 
I also quote his Memoir on the Tanypus, inserted in the Memoirs of the 
Academy of Munich, 1812. 
In conjunction with Messrs. Tiedeman and Liboschitz, he commenced a work 
on Reptiles, with numerous plates, of which the Crocodiles only were published. 
Heidelberg, folio, 1817. 
Ospecx (Peter), a pupil of Linnzus, and chaplain of a Swedish 
vessel that went to China in 1750. 
His narrative was printed in the Swedish language in 8vo., Stockholm, 1757, 
and trans!ated into German by G. Rostock, 8vo., 1765. 
Orto (A. W.), a German naturalist, Professor at Breslau. 
Author of several Memoirs among those of the Academy of Sc., of Nature, 
and other Collections. 
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