LITERATURE. 



Note. — In making up the synonymy and the bibliographical lists dependence has been 

 entirely placed on the Museum libraries. With few or no exceptions, all of the more impor- 

 tant works are included. It is true that extensive additions to these lists might have been 

 made from numerous manuals and other unnoticed publications, but the time and labor thus 

 expended would have been without adequate compensation, since such works ordinarily make 

 no contributions to the literature of the subject be3 - ond the historical item of a mere mention, 

 a notice of which is more often worse than valueless on account of the waste of energy it 

 entails upon the student in his search for information through sending him to a barren source. 

 Viewed in this light, it is a question whether our lists are not already too long. 



Pliny, 1553, Historiae Mundi libri XXXVII. ; 1G35, The Historie of the World. 



Wotton, 1552, De differentiis animalium libri decern. 



Belon, 1553, De aquatilibus, Libri duo. 



Rondei.et, 1554, Libri de Piscibus Marinis. 



Salviani, 1554, Aquatilium Animalium Historiae. 



Gesner, 1556, De Piscibus et Aquatilibus omnibus libelli III. novi ; 1558, Historiae Ani- 

 malium liber IIIL, qui est de Piscium et Aquatilium animantium natura, Paralipomena 

 N. & O. ; 1620, Hist. Anim., IV. 



Bossuet, 1558, De natura aquatilium carmen, etc. 



Clusius, 1605, Exoticorum libri decern: Quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatura aliorum- 

 que peregrinorurn Fructuum historiae describuntur. 



Aldrovandi, 1613, De Piscibus libri V. et de C'etis lib. unus. 



Schonevklde, 1624, Ichthyologiae et nomeuclaturae animalium marinorum. 



Jonston, 1649, Historiae Naturalis de Piscibus et Cetis libri V. 



Worm, 1655, Museum wormianum sen historia rerum rariorum. 



Merrett, 1667 (and 1704), Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum continens vegetabilia, 

 animalia et fossilia in hac insula reperta inchoatus. 



Charleton, 1677, Exercitationes de differentiis et nominibus animalium. 



Sibbald, 1684, Scotia illustrata. 



Willughby, 1686, De Historia Piscium. 



Johnson, 1686, Appendix Hist. Pise. Willughby, 17. 



Tyson, 1686, Appendix, Hist. Pise. Willughby, 25. 



Scheliiamer, 1707, Anatomes Xiphise piscis oceani ineolne cultro anatomieo, a. 1704, in 

 Academia Kiloniensi subjecti brevis ennarratio ; accedit Lumpi et Ophidii ejusdem 

 generis cxamen. 



Petiver, 1711, Gazophylacii naturae et artes decades X., 1702-11. 



Ray, 1713, Synopsis methodica Piscium. 



Rdysch, 1718, Theatrum universale omnium animalium. 



