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a learned priest of Grezzana, who wrote in 1737, and again in 1744, to 

 prove that the fossils found near Verona were not of diluvian origin. 

 Scipio Maffei ^ was anotlier active collector and writer on Bolca fishes 

 during the middle of the eighteenth century. But we cannot dwell upon 

 any of the numerous minor publications of this time, nor even upon the 

 more important contributions of Moro,^ Generelli,^ and others. With 

 this brief sketch we must conclude our survey of pre-Liuuaean literature, 

 and pass on to the modern era ; for from the time of the two great 

 Swedish naturalists onward, Linne and Artedi, the latter of whom is 

 justly styled the "father of ichthyology," a new order of things existed. 

 One of the earliest writers of the new era in natural science, and in- 

 deed the first who attempted a specific determination of tlie Bolca fishes, 

 was Cammillo Zampieri d'lmola,* whose Catalogue of the Ginanni 

 Museum, published in 1762, is decidedly mei'itorious. His identifica- 

 tion of species, however, based as it was upon the treatises of Willoughby 

 and Ray, Avas altogether faulty. Tlie celebrated Fortis also made un- 

 successful endeavors to identify Bolca fishes with the species described 

 by Bloch and Broussonet. Fortis had already noted the occurrence of 

 fossil fishes ^ in other parts of the Alpine strata, but on turning his 

 attention to the Bolca forms, he encountered difficulties.® He was mis- 



tliluviani. Verona, 1737. — Zrfem, Corporum lapidefactorum agri veronensis cata- 

 logus. Verona, 1744. In Plate ii. of tl)is work is given a tolerable figure of 

 Semiophoru.s. See also Cobres's estimate of Spada, in Biichersammlung der Natur- 

 gescliichte, I. p. 20. 



1 Maffei, F. S., Del Monte Bolca, della sua Pesciaia, e degli annessi Monti Calon- 

 nari, etc., in his Compendia della Verona Illustrata, Vol. I., pp. 217-230, pi. i.-viii. 

 Verona, 1795. 



2 Moro, L., Sui crostacei ed altri corpi marini clie si trovano sui monti. 1740. 

 The same work was also published in German under the title of " Neue Unter- 

 suchungen iiber die Abanderungen der Erde." Leipzic, 1751. 



Moro's ideas were appropriated without acknowledgment by Edward King in a 

 paper read before the Royal Society entitled " An attempt to account for tlio 

 Universal Deluge" (Phil. Trans., LVII. pp. 44-57), 1767. For a biographical 

 sketch of Lazzaro Moro see Giornale di Storia naturale del Griselini, I. p. 79. 



^ Generelli, C, Dei crostacei e di altre produzione del mare. 1749. 



* Zampieri, C, Produzione naturali die si ritrovano nel Museo Ginanni in 

 llavenna. Lucca, 17G2. 



* Fortis, A., Viaggi in Dalmazia, II. p. 239. 1774. 



6 Fortis, A., Extrait d'une lettre, etc. Journ, de Phys., XXVIII. 1786. In a 

 later communication to tlie same journal, Fortis vigorously disclaims authorship of 

 the catalogue of Bolca fishes which is appended to his first article. In this anony- 

 mous postscript an extravagant valuation (28,000 liv.) is placed upon the Bozza 

 Collection, which then consisted of about six hundred specimens. 



