CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 469 
Martens (George de), Secretary of the Supreme Court of Wir- 
temberg. 
“A Voyage to Venice,” 2 vols 8vo. Ulm, 1824. It contains a Catalogue of 
the Fishes of that port. 
Martinr (F. H. G.), a physician of Berlin, born 1729, died 1778. 
He commenced the great conchyliological work entitled the 
** Systematic Cabinet of Shells,”? 10 vols 4to, and 1 of Suppl., with coloured 
plates. Nuremberg. 
The three first voloames, 1769—1777, are from his pen, the other from that of 
Chemnitz. 
Maruioxe (P. A), of Scena, born 1500, died 1577. 
In his Commentary on Dioscorides, he enters into details of various animals. 
Mavup.—Mavupuir (R. J. E.), a physician at Paris, who died in 
1792. 
Author of the “ Dictionnaire des Oiseaux” of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. 
Maurrert.—Mauvupertius (P. L. M. de), member of the Académie 
des Sciences, president of that of Berlin, &c. born 1678, died 1759. 
An astronomer and geometrician, also author of certain Memoirs 
on Natural History. 
‘«« Expériences sur les Scorpions,” in the Mémoires de |’Acad. des Sciences, 1731. 
MauricE bE 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. 
Mecxeu (J. F.), Professor at Halle. We quote his 
“¢ Materials for Comparative Anatomy” (in German), 8vo. Leipzic, 1808. 
‘¢ A Treatise on the Ornithorhynchus,” folio. Leipzic, 1826, 
Mrc.—MEGERLE DE Muu.riEp (J. C.). 
Author of “ A Classification of Bivalve Shells,” inserted in the Magazine of the 
Society of the Friends of Nature of Berlin. 
Meutis (Edward). 
“De Distomate Hepatico et Lanceolato,” folio. Gottingen, 182d. 
Meic.—Meicen (J. G.), a German naturalist. 
This author has published (in German), a work on the “ Diptera of Europe,’’ now 
forming 5 yols Syo, accompanied with plates representing at least one species of 
each genus, with the details of their characters. 
