492 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
“De Conchis minus notis,’? 1 vol. 4to., with plates. Venice, 1739. The 
second edition greatly enlarged, Rome, 1760. 
Pi. Cot.—Piancues Couori£Es. 
‘« Planches Coloriées des Oiseaux, par MM. Temminck and Laugier,” 4to. 
and folio, a great work which forms a sequel to the Planches Enluminées, &c. 
of Buffon. 
Pi. Enu.—Piancues ENLUMINEES. 
The coloured plates of Birds, published for Buffon’s Natural History, by Du- 
benton, Jun., amounting to one thousand and eight, but aranged without order. 
It is beyond all doubt the richest collection of that class that has ever appeared. 
Most of the figures are good, 
Pium.—P.iumier (Charles), a Minim, who travelled for a long 
time in the service of Louis the Fourteenth; he was a great natu- 
ralist in all the branches of the science, although several of his works 
have remained unpublished. 
I have had occasion to quote his observations on Fishes and Reptiles, part of 
which are at Paris and part at Berlin, all in MS., with numerous drawings; a 
portion of them has been published by Bloch and Lacépéde, 
Pot, a naturalist and anatomist at Naples, author of the magnifi- 
cent work entitled 
“ Testacea utriusque Siciliz eorumque Historia et Anatome,” 2 vols. folio. 
Parma, 1791 and 1795. A third volume has been lately published. 
Prevy.—Prevosr (Benedict). 
“ Mémoire sur le Chirocéphale,’’ published at the end of the Histoire des 
Monocles of Jurine. See Jurine. 
Preys.—PreysuerR (J. D.) 
‘¢ Werzeichniss Bochmischer Insecten,”’ 1 vol. 4to. Prague, 1790. : 
Pr. Max.—Maximiian Prince, pE Wirep-Nervuwiep. 
His ‘‘ Voyage to Brazil,’ 2 vols. 4to., with an atlas, Franckf., 1820 and 
1821, his ‘‘ Natural History of Brazil,’”’ of which two vols. 8vo. were pub- 
lished at Weimar, 1826, and several numbers of coloured plates, in folio, are 
among the number of those productions of modern times which are richest in 
novelties. 
Prunn.—Prunner (Leonard de). 
‘¢ Lepidoptera Pedemontana,’’ 1 vol. Svo. Turin, 1798. 
Q. and G. or Quoy and Gaym., or Gaimm—Qvoy and Gaymarp, 
fellow travellers, who have already made two great voyages. 
They have published the ‘‘ Zoologie du Voyage de l’Uranie,’”’ I vol. Paris, 
1824, with one yolume, folio, of plates. They are at present occupied with 
that of the ‘‘ Voyage de ]’Astrolabe,’’ of which several numbers have already 
appeared. 
Rarries (Sir Stamford), an English General and Governor of Su- 
matra, who has greatly contributed to our knowledge of the preduc- 
tions of that island. 
I quote his paper on this subject in the thirteenth volume of the Linnean 
Transactions 
Rar.—Rarinesque Scumautz (C. S.), naturalist, long a resident 
in Sicily, and at present established in the United States. 
Author of numerous little works on new species, genera, and systems. 
‘« Caratteri di aleuni nuovi Generi et nuove Specie di Animali e Piante della 
Sicilia,” 8vo. Palermo, 1810. 
“‘ Indice d’Ittiologia Siciliana,’’? Svo. Paris, 1810. 
‘ Principes Fondamentaux de Sémiologie.’’ Palermo, 1814. 
‘* Analyse de Univers, ou Tableau de Ja Nature,’’ Svo. Paris, 1815. 
‘* Tethyologia Ohiensis, or Natural History of the Fishes inhabiting the river 
Ohio,’’ &c., 8vo. Lexington, Kentucky, 1820. 
Ray (John), an English theologian, born 1628, died 1704; the 
