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The first exact comparison of fossils with analogous recent bodies that was in- 
stituted. There is a Latin translation of this work in 4to. Rome, 1752. 
Scor.—Scopor (J. A.), Professor of Botany and Chemistry at 
Pavia, born in 1723, died in 1788. 
«* Entomologia Carniolica,”’ 1 vol. 8vo. Vindebone, 1763. 
* Delicie Flore et Faune Insubrice,” with plates, 4 vols folio. Ticini, 1786— 
1788. 
** Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem,” 1 vol. 8vo. Prage, 1777. 
* Anni Historici-Naturales, V.” Lipsie, 1768—1772, united in one vol. 8vo. 
‘* He has also published some plates which are but little known, forming a sequel 
to his “ Entomologia Carniolica.” 
ScoreEssy, an English navigator who re-discovered Oriental Green- 
Jand, and author of 
** Arctic Regions,” &c., 1 vol, London, 1816, which contains many valuable ob- 
servations on the Cetacea. 
Ses.—Sepa (Albert), a druggist of Amsterdam, born in 1665, 
died in 1736. Celebrated for his 
‘‘ Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio,” 4 vols folio. 
Amsterdam, 1734, 1765. 
A work that I have frequently quoted, because it is enriched with numerous and 
excellent plates ; the text, however, is of no authority whatever, being written with- 
out accuracy or judgment. 
Sexpy (P.9.). 
Author of * Illustrations of British Ornithology,” S8vo, Edinburgh, 1825, with a 
very large atlas, the most magnificent work on Ornithology that exists [that of our 
countryman, M. Audubon, excepted, which the Baron himself in a late report to the 
Institute declares to be “ the most magnificent monument the arts have ever erected 
to the Science.” Am. Ed.]. 
He has also published various papers in the Zoological Journal, &c. 
SrencuerD.—SeEnGueErpius (Wolferd). 
«‘ Tractatus Physicus de Tarentula,” 1 vol. 12mo. Lugduni Batavorum, 1668. 
Serres (Marcel de), Professor of Mineralogy to the Faculté des 
Sciences of Montpellier. Author of 
<‘ Mémoire sur les yeux composes, et les yeux lisses des Insectes,’’ with plates, 
1 vol. 8vo. Montpellier, 1813. 
Several Memoirs on the Anatomy of Insects, published in the Annales du Mu- 
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seum. 
Serv.—SERVILLE, one of the writers for the Entomological De- 
partment of the Faune Frangaise, and of the Encyclopédie Métho- 
dique. 
