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The “ Novi Commentarii,” 20 vols, from 1749 to 1775. 
The “ Acta,” 7 vols, from 1777 to 1782. 
The “ Nova Acta,”’ 15 vols, from 1783 to 1802. 
The “ Memoirs,” from 1809. 
Puetsum (Murck Van), a Dutch naturalist. 
‘© Quoted for his ‘* Letter to C. Noseman on the Echini,” Svo. Rotterdam, 1774, 
Puiu (Arthur), a German, and Governor of Botany Bay, in the 
English service. 
“* The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay,” &c., with fifty-five coloured 
plates, London, 1789. An anonymous work, the part relative to natural history by 
Latham. There is a French translation of it without plates, in 1 vol. Svo. Paris, 
1791. 
Puirs (C. J), the celebrated English navigator, subsequently Lord 
Mulgrave; born 1746, died 1792. 
** Voyage to the North Pole in 1773,” translated into French by Desmeuniers, 1 
vol, 4to. Paris, 1775. 
Pranc.—Ptanous (Janus) or J. Brancut, a physician of Rimini, 
born in 1693, died in 1775. 
“De Conchis minus notis,” 1 vol. 4to, with plates. Venice, 1739. Thesecond 
edition greatly enlarged, Rome, 1760. 
Pi. Cot.—PLancHeEs CoLori£Es. 
«‘ Planches Coloriees 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. Ent.—Puiancnes En.tuMiners. 
The coloured plates of Birds, published for Buffon’s Natural History, by Duben- 
ton, Jun., amounting to one thousand and eight, but arranged without order. It is 
beyond all doubt the richest collection of that class that has ever appeared. Most 
of the figures are good. 
Prum.—P.umier (Charles), a Minim, who travelled for a long time 
in the service of Louis the Fourteenth ; he was a great naturalist 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remained unpublished.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, allin MS., with numerous drawings; a por- 
tion of them has been published by Bloch and Lacépéde. 
Pout, a naturalist and anatomist at Naples, author of the magni- 
ficent work, entitled 
“< Testacea utriusque Sicilia eorumque Historia et Anatome,” 2 vols folio. Par- 
ma, 1791 and 1795. A third volume has been lately published. 
