QUOTED IN Tins WORK. 



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Brehm (Christian-Louis), a Ger- 

 man clergyman. 



"Materials for a History of Birds" (in 

 German), 3 vols. 8vo. Neustadt, 1820. 

 1822. 



Bremser, curator of the imi^erial 

 cabinet of Vienna. 



" On tlie Worms that inhabit liviiip- 

 Man" (in Gemiany), 4to. Vienna, 

 1819. It has been translated into 

 French by Dr. Grundler, with addi- 

 tions by M. de Blainville, 8vo. Paris, 

 1824. 



Breyn. — Breynius (J. Philip), 

 a naturalist and physician of Dant- 

 zick, born 1680, died 1764. 



" Dissertatio de Polythalamiis, nova Tes- 

 taccornmclasse," 4to. Dantzick, 1732. 



" Historia Naturalis Cocci ra licnm Tinc- 

 torii," 1 vol. 4to. Gedani, 1731. 



Briss. — Brisson (Mathurin Jac- 

 ques), professor of natvu-al philoso- 

 phy, member of the Academie des 

 Sciences, and in his youth curator 

 of the cabinet of natural history of 

 Reaumur; born 1723, died 1806. 



" Le Regno Animal di vise en IX classes," 

 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1750'. It only con- 

 tains the Quadrupeds and Cetacea. 



" Ornithologie," G vols. 4to. Paris 1770. 

 A useful work on account of the mi- 

 nute exactness of the descriptions. 

 The plates were drawn by the same 

 hand that furnished the figures of the 

 Planches Enluminees of Buffon, and 

 are frequently taken from the same 

 specimens. 



Bf 



Zoc 



Under this title we quote the large ano- 

 nymous folio with tine plates, called 

 " British Zoology," pnnted in London 

 in 176G. It is by Pennant, and has 

 been re])roduccd by him under the 

 same title in 4 vols. 8vo. See Pennant. 



Brocchii G ), a military engineer, 

 died 1828 at Syria, in the service of 

 the Pacha of Egypt. 



" Conchiologia Fossile Subapennina," 

 2 vols. 4to. Milan, 1814. 



Brongn. — Bronginiaut (Alex- 

 ander), member of the Academie 

 des Sciences, and i)rofessor of the 

 Cuv. Tabic of Aulliors. 



Faculte des Sciences de Paris, and 

 of the Jardin du Roi, born 1770. 



" Essai d'une Classification Naturelle des 

 Reptiles," 4to. Paris, 1805. 



I also quote his works on the Fossil 

 Shells — " Coquillcs Fossiles". — both 

 in the Annales du Museum, and our 

 joint publication on the geology of 

 the environs of Paris, I also refer to 

 his 



" Histoire des Crustaces Fossiles," 4to. 

 published by him and M. Desmaret. 

 Paris, 1812." 



Brouss. — Broussonnet (Pierre- 

 Marie-Auguste), perpetual secretary 

 to the Societe d'Agricidture, and 

 member of the Academie des Sci- 

 ences ; born 1 761, died 1807- I 

 quote his 



" Memoire sur les Chiens de Mer," in 

 the Memoires de FAcademie des Sci- 

 ences, 1780. Also his 



■■' Ichthyologia," 4to. of which but one 

 part was published. London and 

 Paris, 1782. 



Brown Jam. — Brown (Patrick), 

 an Irish physician, resident in Ja- 

 maica. 



" The Civil and Natural History of Ja- 

 maica," 1 vol. folio. London, 1756. 



Brown or Be. — Brown (Peter), 

 an English painter. 



" New Illustrations of Zoology," 1 vol. 

 4to. London, 1776, with fifty coloured 

 plates of animals of various classes^ — 

 all of them indifferently executed. 



Bruce (James), the celebrated 

 Scotch traveller, born 1730, died 

 1794. 



" Travels in Abyssinia, and to the Sources 

 of the Nile." I quote the French 

 translation, 5 vols. 4to. Paris, 1790. 



Brug. — Brugieres (Jean-Guil- 

 laume), a physician at Montpellier, 

 and a traveller, born 1 750, and died 

 at Ancona on his return from Per- 

 sia, 1799. I quote his 



" Dictionnaire des Vers," published in 

 the Encyclopedie Melhodiquc. But 

 one volume, 4to. has appeared. Paris, 

 1792. I also quote iiis 



" Figures de Vers," for the same work, 

 of which there are four. 

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