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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



Aldrov. or Aldr. — Aldrovan- 

 Di (Ulysse), a nobleman of Bologna, 

 Professor of the University of Bo- 

 logna, born 1525, died blind, 1605. 



His " Natural History," in fourteen vols, 

 folio, from 1.599 to 1640, eleven of 

 which are on the subject of animals, 

 was mostly published by his suc- 

 cessors. The third volume of the 

 Ornithology and the first of the In- 

 sects were the only ones published 

 during his life. It is an undigested 

 and wearisome compilation. 



Amor. — Amoreux (N.), a phy- 

 sician of Montpellier. 



" Notice des Insectes de la France, re- 

 putes Venimeux," 1 vol. folio, vdth 

 plates. Paris, 1786. 



" Description Methodique d'une especc 

 de Scorpion commune a Souvignar- 

 gues, en Languedoc." Journal de 

 Physique, XXXV. 



Anders. — Anderson (John), a 

 merchant and bm-gomaster of Ham- 

 burg, born in 1674, died in 1743. 



" Histoire Naturelle de I'lslande du 

 Greenland," &c. 2 vols, 8vo. Paris, 

 1750. 



This work, although antiquated and 

 superficial, is still the principal source 

 of our information relative to the 

 Cetacea. 



Andrew (John Gerard Rein- 

 hard), druggist at Hanover, born 

 in 1724, died in 1793. 



" Letters written from Switzerland to 

 Hanover, 1763," in the German 

 Language. Tliey were at first printed 

 separately in the Hanover Magazine 

 for 1764 — 65, and republished in 1 

 vol. 4to. Zurich, 1776. 



Ann. Mus. or du Mus. — " An- 

 nales du Museum d' Histoire Natu- 

 relle de Paris," by the professors of 

 that establishment, 20 vols. 4to, 

 from 1802 to 1813. 



This work is continued under the title 

 of: 



" Memoires du Museum d'Histoirc 

 Naturelle," &c. Paris, 1815, et seq. 

 Eighteen volumes have been pub- 

 lished. 



Argenv. — Argenvii.le (An- 

 toinc Joseph Des-Alliers d'), maitre 



des Comptes of Paris, born 1680, 

 died 1765. 



" L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans 

 une de ses principales parties, la Con- 

 ch yhologie," 4to. first edition. 

 Paris, 1742; the second augmented 

 by the addition of the Zoomorphose, 

 ibid., 1757 ; the third augmented by 

 M. Favaune, 2 vols, ibid., 1780. 



Arted. — Artedi (Peter), a 

 Swedish naturalist, and a friend of 

 Linnaeus, born in 1705, drowned at 

 Amsterdam in 1735. 



His work on Fishes was published by 

 Linnaeus. " P. Artedi Ichthyologia sive 

 Opera Omnia de Piscibiis," 1 vol. 

 8vo. Leyden, 1738. 



The edition of Walbaum, " Artedius 

 Renovatus," 5 vols. 8vo. Gripswald, 

 1788 — 89 is gi-eatly augmented, but 

 by an injudicious compiler. 



AscAN. — AscANius (Peter), Pro- 

 fessor at Copenhagen. 



Author of five numbers in folio, the 

 first containing "■ Coloured Illustra- 

 tions of the Natural History of tlie 

 North," from 1767 to 1779. 



AuDEB. — Audebert (Jeau-Bap- 

 tiste), a painter at Paris, born in 

 Rochefort, 1759, died 1800. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des 

 Maids," folio, Paris, 1800, with sixty- 

 two plates drawn from the stuffed 

 specimens in the Museum. 



" Oiseaux Dores on a. Reflets Metalli- 

 ques," 2 vols, folio, Paris, 1802. 



AuD. — Audouin (Jean- Victor), 

 Doctor of Medicine, sub-hbrarian 

 to the Institute of France, assistant 

 naturalist to Messrs. de Lamarck 

 and Latreille at the Jardin du Roi, 

 and member of various societies, 

 born in Paris, 27th of April 1797- 



" Anatomic d'une Larve Apodc" 

 (Conops), found in a Bombus lapi- 

 darius, bv Messrs Lachat and Au- 

 douin, 1818. 



" Memoire sur les rapports des Trilo- 

 bites avec les Animaux Articules," 

 published with plates in the Annales 

 Generales des Sciences Physiques, 

 VIII. p. 233. 



" Memoires sur FAchlysie, Nouveau 

 Genre d'Arachnide," published with 

 plates in the Mem. Soc. d' Histoire 

 Naturelle, II. 497. 



