Books on Exhibition at Cambridge. 



BOOKS, LETTERS, and PAPEES Exhibited in the Philo- 

 sophical Library by Permission of the Committee, with 

 Notes by Professor Newton, 20th June, 1905. 



Books. " 



1. Albertus Magnus. Diui Alberti Magni de Aiiimalibus 



libri vigintisex Nouissime Impressi. Venetiis : 1495. 

 Folio. 



Book XXIII. treats of Birds, of which 114 kinds are named — without 

 including several others mentioned in the 24 chapters devoted to those 

 used in Falconry. 



2. John James Audubon» The Birds of America from 



original drawings. London : 1827-38. Eighty-seven 

 Parts or Five Volumes. Folio. 



Copy subscribed for by the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



3. Auicêna de Aïalibus per Magistrü Michaels Scotü de 



Arabico in latinü translatus. [Venetiis : circa 1500 ? 

 Hain 2220.] Folio. 



Avicenna's work is based on Aristotle. Many birds are mentioned, and 

 one chapter of Book IX. (p. 17) is wholly "denaturis uolatiliuni, et maxime 

 quae rapina uiuunt." This copy is from the Library of the late Professor 

 J. Victor Cams. 



4. Pierre Barrere. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la 

 France Equinoxiale ou dénombrement des Plantes, des 

 Animaux... qui se trouvent dans l'Isle de Cayenne, sur 

 les Côtes de la Mer, et dans le Continent de la Guyane. 

 Paris: 1741. 12°. 



Presentation copy to Boyer with author's autograph. 



5. „ „ Ornithologiae Specimen Novum, sive 

 series Avium in Fruscinone, Pyrenaeis Montibus, atque 

 in Galliâ iEquinoctiali observatarum... Perpiniani : 

 mdccxlv. 4to. 



An early attempt at imitating the method of Linnaeus. 



6. Benjamin Smith Barton. Fragments of the Natural 

 History of Pennsylvania. Part First. Philadelphia : 

 1799. Folio. 



No more than this part published. A reprint was edited by Salvin for 

 the Willughby Society. " Very scarce," fide Cones " Bibliography," p. 2d. 



