ALPHABETICAL TABLE 



AUTHORS QUOTED ]N THIS WORK. 



In explaining the abbreviations employed to indicate the numerous 

 writers necessarily referred to in this work, it has been thought useful to 

 give the reader a general idea of their profession, the period of their birth 

 and decease, and of the character of their writings. 



Abild. — Abildgaardt (Peter 

 Christian), a Danish naturalist ; 

 Professor at Copenhagen, died in 

 1808. 



One of the eontinuers of the Zoologia 

 Danica of M'uller, and author of va- 

 rious Memoirs publislied among those 

 of the Society of Natural History, 

 and of The Royal Society of Sciences 

 of Copenhagen, as well as of the So- 

 ciety of Naturalists of Berlin. 



Acad, des So. 



I thus quote the " Memoires de 1' Acade- 

 luie des Sciences,'' of Paris, of \vhich 

 one quarto volume was annually pub- 

 lished from 1700 to 1790. 



I have also occasionally quoted the " Me- 

 moires des Savans Etrangers a 1' Acade- 

 mie," eleven volumes, from 1750 to 

 1786. 



I have .ilso frequently quoted the ' ' Me- 

 moirs of the Academy of Berlin" from 

 1819, and the new ones of the Aca- 

 demia Natura; Curiosorum of Bonn, 

 from Vol. IX. 1818, at which period 

 they assumed their new form. 



For those of the Academy of Petersburg, 

 see Petcrob. or Petrop. 



AcosTA or rather Mendez da 

 Costa (Emmanuel), a Portuguese 

 naturalist, resident in London. 



" Ilistoria Naturalis Tcstaceorum Bri- 

 tannije," 1 vol. 4to. Loudon, 177o. 



Adanson (Michael), born at Aix 



in 1727, and died in Paris I8O6, 

 Member of the Academie des Sci- 

 ences, and one of the first natural- 

 ists who attempted the classification 

 of Shells according to their animals. 



" Histoirc Naturelle des Coquillages du 

 Senegal," 1775, 1 vol. 4to. 



Agassis, a German naturalist. 



Editor of the "• Fishes of Spix," and au- 

 tlior of Memoirs in the Isis. 



Ahr. — Ahrens. 



" Augusti Ahrensii, Fauna Inscctorum 

 Europa;, fascic. 1 — Xll." 



Alb. or Albin. — Albin (Elea- 

 zar), an English painter. 



"A Natural History of Birds," 3 vols. 



4to. London, 1731 — 38, containing 306 



indifferent coloured plates. 

 " A Natural History of Spiders," 1 vol. 



4to. with plates. London, 1736. 



ALBiNus(Bernard-Sigefroy) Pro- 

 fessor at Leyden, and one of the great 

 anatomists of the eighteenth century, 

 born at Frankfort in 1697, died in 

 1770. 



We have only had occasion to quote 

 him for the description of the Penna- 

 luls- inserted in the " Annotationes 

 Academicic," 8 Nos. in 4to. Lcydcn, 

 1754—1768. 

 O '2 



