Boohs on Exhibition at Cambridge. 79 



de la Martinique " of the ' Planches Enluminées ' (no. 549) and of 

 Brisson (Ornithologie, iv. p. 242) is, according to Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois., 

 vi. p. 214), quite different from that described by Labat. 



38. C. J. Temminck. Catalogue systématique du cabinet 

 d'ornithologie et de la Collection de Quadrumanes de 

 C ED ' J B- Temminck. Avec une courte description des 

 Oiseaux non-décrits Amsterdam: C. Sepp Jansz. 



MDCCCVII. 



For Hartlaub's determination of the species here described see ' Con- 

 tributions to Ornithology,' .1849, pp. 19 et seqq. " Schlegel undoubtedly 

 did not know this catalogue." O. Finsch, in litt. 



39. John Tradescant. Musseum Tradescantianum : or a 

 Collection of Rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer 

 London by John Tradescant. London : mdccvi. 8vo. 



Contained the celebrated specimen of the " Dodar, from the Island 

 Mauritius ; it is unable to nie being so big " (p. 4). The Museum subse- 

 quently passed to Ashmole, who bequeathed it to the University of Oxford. 



40. William Turner. Avium Praecipuarum, quarum apud 

 Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, breuis et succincta 

 historia. Ex optimis quibusque scriptoribus contexta, 

 scholio illustrata et aucta. Adiectis nominibus Graecis, 

 Germanicis & Britanni eis . Per Dn . G uilielmum Turnerum, 

 artium et Medicinae doctorem. Coloniae excudebat loan. 

 Gymnicus, Anno mdxliiii. Octavo. 



Bound as usual with the ' Dialogus de Avibus ' of Longolius printed at 

 the same place and time. Turner's treatise has been reprinted and edited 

 with an English translation and notes by Mr. A. H. Evans (Cambridge 

 University Press, 1903). 



41. Anthony Weldon. The Court and Character of King- 

 James. Written and taken by Sir A. W., being an eye, 

 and eare witness. London : mdcl. 8vo. 



Contains the original story (pp. 104, 105), so often wrongly told, of Sir 

 Thomas M-nson's Falcons. 



42. Ol au s Worm (Olaf Orni). Museum Wormianum. Seu 

 Historia Rerum Rariorum, Tarn Waturalium quam 

 Artificialium, Tarn Domestica rum quam Exoticarum, 

 quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus Authoris servantur. 

 Adornata ab Olao Worm, Med. Doct. et in Regia 

 Hafniensi Academia, olim Professore publico. Varus 

 et accuratis Iconibus illustrata. Lugduni Batavorum, 

 Apud Johannem Elsevirium, Acad. Typograph. mdclv. 

 Folio. 



