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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



and the Annales des Sciences Natnr- 

 elles ; also of the description of the 

 Fishes of Egypt in the gTeat work on 

 that country. 



Geor. — Georgi (J. T.), a Ger- 

 man naturalist, who travelled in the 

 service of the Russian government 

 in 1772, 1773, and 1774. 



His travels are printed in German, 2 

 vols. 4to. Petersburg, 1775. 



Germar (Ernest Frederick), a 

 German naturalist. 



"Disscrtatio sistcns Bomhycum Species," 



&c., 4to. Halle. 

 He continues the " Magazin fur Insec- 



tenkunde," of Illiger. 



Gm. — Germar (E. Francis), 

 Professor of Mineralogj^at Halle. 



" jNIagazin der Entomologic," 4 vols. 



8vo. Halle, 1813— 1821.^ 

 " Insectorum Species Novae," first vol. 



8vo. -u-ith plates. Halle, 1824. See 



Ahrens. 



Gesn.' — Gesner (Conrad), a 

 physician at Zurich, born 1516, 

 died 1565. 



I quote his " History of Animals," 3 

 vols, folio, to -n-hich has been added 

 a Treatise on Serpents, and one on 

 the Scorpion. This work, ■ndiich is 

 arranged alphabetically, is an excel- 

 lent compilation of all the knowledge 

 of the ancients, and is enriched vath 

 useful observations, and numerous 

 wood cuts, most of them good. 



GiLLiAMS, an American natural- 

 ist. 



Author of certain Memoirs on Reptiles 

 and Fishes, published in the Journal- 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



GioENi (Giuseppe), a Sicilian 

 naturalist of the house of Angio. 



" Description of a new family and of a 

 new genus of the Testacea," &c., in 

 Italian, pamphlet, 8vo. Naples, 1783. 



It is the stomach of the Bulla lignaria, 

 which he has converted into an 

 animal. 



GioRNA (M. P.), a Piedmontese 

 naturaUst, professor at Turin, born 

 1741, died ISO9. 



I quote some of his Memoirs, published 

 among (those of the Academy of 

 Turin. 



Gmelin (Samuel Tlieophilus), 

 born at Tubingen 1743, a German 

 naturalist and traveller in the ser- 

 vice of Russia, from 1768 to 1774, 

 at which period he died in Persia. 



His travels were published in German, 

 4 vols. 4to. Petersburg, 1770 — 1784. 

 They abound in valuable articles on 

 Natural History. 



Gm. — Gmelin (John Frederic), 

 Professor of Chemistry at Gottin- 

 gen, born at Tubingen in 1748, 

 died in 18 — . 



The author of the thirteenth and last 

 edition of the " Systema Naturas" 'of 

 Linnfeus. His work, notwithstanding 

 the ignorance of things, want of judg- 

 ment, and crudity that it exhibits, is 

 still necessary, as being the only 

 tolerably complete account of wliat 

 had been done down to 1790. 



GoDART (J. B.), Chief of the 

 Lyceum of Bonn under the Imperial 

 Regime, died 1825. 



Editor of the article " Papillon" of the 



Encyclopedic Methodique. 

 " Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres 



on Papillons de France," 5 (first) vols. 



8vo., commenced in 1822. 



GoETz. or rather Goez. — Goeze 

 (I. A. E.), pastor of QuedUmbourg, 

 one of the principal ^^Titers on the 

 Intestinal Worms, born 1731, died 

 1793. 



" Natural History of Intestinal Wonns" 

 (in German), 1 vol. 4to. Bracken- 

 berg, 1782. 



GoLDFuss (G. A.), Professor at 

 Bonn. 



" A Manual of Zoology," 2 vols. 8vo. 



Nuremberg, 1820. 

 Author of various memoirs published 



among those of the Academia Natura; 



Curiosorimi. 



Goran (Antoine), Professor at 



Montpellier. 



" Historia Piscium," 1 vol. 4to. Stras- 

 burg, 1770. 



Of the numerous works published by 

 this learned naturalist, the above is 

 the only one we have had occasion to 

 quote. Strictly speaking, it is a mere 

 description of genera, but dra^^ni up in 



