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Bourcuer (Louis), professor at Neufchatel, born 1678, died 1742. 
‘© Traité des Petrifications,” 1 vol. 4to, Paris, 1742. 
Bownicu, an English naturalist. 
Author of a Journey to Ashantee, and of a Voyage to Madeira, which contain va- 
rious observations relative to natural history. 
Bownpicu (Mrs.), now Mrs. Ler, 
{Is publishing a History of the Fresh-water Fishes of Great Britain, with splendid 
plates. London 1828, 1829. 
Branper (Gustavus), an English naturalist, died 1787. 
‘* Fossilia Hantoniensia Collecta et in Museo Britannico deposita, 4to. London, 
1766. 
Brantz, a young Dutch naturalist. 
‘* Memoir on the Euriotis,”’ the same Rat as our Otomys. 
Brespis.—BreEsisson, member of the Societé Linnéenne of Cal- 
vados. 
«* Catalogue Methodique des Crustaces Terrestres, Fluviatiles et Marins, recueillis 
dans le department du Calvados,” 8vo. 
Breum (Christian-Louis), a German clergyman. 
«* Materials for a History of Birds’? (in German), 8 vols 8vo. Neustadt, 1820, 
1822. 
BrREMSER, curator of the imperial cabinet of Vienna. 
“© On the Worms that inhabit living Man” (in German), 4to. Vienna, 1819. It 
has been translated into French by Dr. Grundler, with additions by M. de Blain- 
ville, Svo. Paris, 1824. 
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Breyn.—Breynivus (John Philip), a naturalist and physician of 
Dantzick, born 1680, died 1764. . 
“ Dissertatio de Polythalamiis, nova Testaceorum classe,” 4to. Dantzick, 1732. 
“© Historia Naturalis Cocci radicum Tinctorii,”’ 1 vol. 4to. Gedani, 1731. 
Briss.—Brisson (Mathurin Jacques), professor of natural philo- 
sophy, member of the Académie des Sciences, and in his youth cu- 
rator of the cabinet of natural history of Réaumur; born 1723, died 
1806. 
«Le Régne Animal divise en IX classes,” 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1756. It only con- 
tains the Quadrupeds and Cetacea. : 
“ Ornithologie,” 6 vols 4to. Paris, 1770. A useful work on account of the mi- 
nute exactness of the descriptions. The plates were drawn by the same hand that 
furnished the figures of the Planches Enluminees of Buffon, and are frequently taken 
from the same specimens. 
