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He has also published good Monographs of the genera Carabus, Curculio and 
Staphylinus, but they are incorporated with the Fauna. 
« Monographia Histeroideum,” with plates of all the species, 1 vol. 8vo. Upsal, 
1811. This Monograph is superior to the preceding ones, and is indispensably re- 
quisite for the study of these Insects. 
He has published certain Memoirs on Birds. 
Peck (William), Professor of Botany at the university of Har- 
vard, died in 
Author of a Memoir inserted in the fourth volume of the Agricultural Journal of 
Massachusetts, relative to a species of Rhynchenus, that attacks the Pine. 
Penn. Pennr.—Prnnant (Thomas), a Welchman, born in 1726, 
died in 1798. A laborious naturalist. The works we chiefly quote 
are his 
*« History of Quadrupeds,”’ 2 vols Ato. 
« British Zoology,” 1 vol. folio. 
‘* British Zoology,” 4to and 8vo, 4 vols. 
« Arctic Zoology,”’ 2 vols 4to. 
«* Indian Zoology,” 1 vol. 4to. 
Prernetty, a Benedictine who accompanied Bougainville to the 
Faulkland Islands ; he was afterwards librarian to Frederick II of 
Prussia. 
“© Voyage aux Iles Malouines,” 2 vols 8vo. Paris, 1770. It contains some va- 
luable details on Natural History and useful figures. 
Prr.—Peron (Francois), born at Cerilly in 1775, died in 1810, a 
zealous traveller, prematurely snatched from the sciences, and one 
of those who have most contributed to enrich the Museum of Paris. 
“ He edited the first volume of the ‘* Voyage de découverte aux Terres Aus- 
trales en 1800—1804,” 1 vol. 4to, with an atlas. Paris, 1807. 
He was also the author of various Memoirs published in the Annales du Muséum. 
PreRRAULT (Claude), a naturalist, architect of the Louvre and Ob- 
servatory of Paris, born 1613, died 1688. 
He published, from the dissections of Duverney, the ‘“* Mémoires pour servir a 
Histoire Naturelle des Animaux,”? which form the third volume of the Mém. de 
PAcad. des Sciences, previous to 1699. 
Prerac.—Prraena, (V.), of Naples. 
“« Specimen Insectorum Ulterioris Calabriz,” 4to, with one plate. Francofurti, 
1787. 
« Elements of Entomology,” 2 vols Svo. 
Prererss. or Prerrop. Mem., or CommMent., or Nov. CoMMENT., or 
Aot., or Nov. Act. 
Such are the various titles of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
of St Petersburg. 
The “ Commentarii,” 14 vols 4to, from 1726 to 1746. 
