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Fab. — Fabricius (J. C ),apupil 

 of Linnaeus, Professor of Natural 

 History and Rural Economy at Kiel, 

 born at Tundern, in the Duchy of 

 Sleswick in 1742, died 1807. He 

 published a great many works on 

 Entomology, of which I have par- 

 ticularly quoted the following. 



" Entomologia Systematica emendata et 

 aucta," 4 vols. 8vo. tlie first and tliird 

 in two parts. Hafuias, 1792 — 1794. 

 This work contains several of liis 

 anterior ones, revised and re-modellcd, 

 such as the " Systeuia Entomologice," 



1 vol. 8vo. ; " Species Insectoriun," 



2 vols. 8vo. ; " Mantissa Insectoruni," 



2 vols. 8vo. 



" Supplementum Entoniologiae Syste- 

 maticse," 1 vol. 8vo. Hafiiia?, 1798. 



" Systema Eleutheratornni," 2 vols. 8vo. 

 Kilia", 1801. 



" Systema Rhyngotormn," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Brunsvigso, 1801. 



" Systema Piezatorum," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Brunsvigse, 1804. 



" Systema Antliatorum," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Brunsvigse, 1805. 



He was about to publish his, " Systema 

 Glossatorum," when the hand of 

 death was laid upon him. An extract 

 from tliat work is given by Illiger in 

 his Magazin fiir Insectenkunde. 



Fab. or Fabr. — Fabricius 

 (Otho), Clergyman in Greenland, 

 and subsequently in Norway and 

 Denmark. 



" Fauna Groenlandica," &c. 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1790, a 

 work of great value, on account of the 

 exactness of the descriptions, but in 

 which names arc frequently improperly 

 applied. 



He also published certain memoirs 

 among those of the Society of Natural 

 History of Copenhagen. 



Falck (J. P.), a Swede, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at Petersburg, 

 born 1727 ; travelled in the service 

 of the Russian government from 

 1768 to 1773, and committed 

 suicide at Cassan in 1774. 



His travels were published in German, 



3 vols. 4to. Petersburg, 178.5, 178(!. 

 The last two relate entirely lo Natuiul 

 History. 



Fall. — Fallen (Charles Frc- 



Chv. Tabic of Authors. 



derick). Professor of Natural His- 

 tory at Lund. 



" Diptera Suecia\" 4to. first volume. 

 Lund*, 1814—1817. 



Farin. — Farines, a naturalist 

 residing in the department of the 

 Pyrenees Orientales. 



Author of Observations on the larva of 

 the Ripiphorus bimaculatus, in the 

 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 

 1826. 



Favanne. 



Author of a " Dictionnaire de Conchy- 

 liok)gie," and of a greatly enlarged 

 edition of the Conchyliology of 

 d'Argenvillc. 



Fauj. — Faujas de Saint-fond 

 (B.), Professor of Geology at the 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. 



" Histoire Naturelle dc la Montaigne de 

 St. Pierre de Maestricht," 1 vol. 4to. 

 Paris, 1799. 



Fermin (Philip), physician at 

 Surinam. 



" Histoire Naturelle de la Hollande 



equinoxialc," 1 vol. 8vo. Amsterdam, 



1765. 

 " Description de Surinam," 2 vols. 8vo. 



Amsterdam, 1769. 

 Two indifferent works, filled with errois 



of nomenclature. 



Fern, or Hern. — Hernandez 

 (Francisco), physician-in-chief at 

 Mexico, under Philip H. 



" Nova Plantarum, Animalium et 

 Mmeralium Mexicanorum Historia," 

 folio, Rome, 1651. A singular com- 

 bination of fragments of the author, 

 figures drawn by others, and annota- 

 tions of editors. It should be read 

 cautiously. 



Feruss. — Ferussac (J. Daude- 

 bart de), a French naturalist. 



Author of a new and enlarged edition of 

 an " Essai d'une Methode Conchylio- 

 lognque," originally written by M. de 

 Ferussac, Sen., pamphlet, 8vo. Paris, 

 1807. 



" Histoire des Mollusqucs, Tcrrestres, et 

 Fluviatiles," folio, with fine plates. 

 It is not yet completed. 



lie is also the principal editor of llial 

 important periodical called tlic 

 "Bulletin Univcrsel des Sciences," 

 &c. 



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