QUOTED IN THIS WORK. 



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Author of certain Memoirs, and quoted 

 as having given names to the various 

 objects he discovered. 



Lapeyr. — LAPEYROusE(Philippe 

 Picot, Baron de), Professor of Na- 

 tural History at Toulouse. 



" Description dcplusieurs especes d'Or- 

 thoceratites et d'Ostracitcs," 1 vol. 

 folio, Nuremb. 1781. 



I also quote certain articles ^mtten by 

 him for the Dictionnaire des Giseaux 

 of the Encyclopedic Methodique. 



Laroche (De), a young jjhysi- 

 cian of Paris, prematurely snatched 

 from the sciences by death. 



Author of Memoirs in the Annales 

 du Museum, and one in particular, 

 Sur les Poissons d'lvica, in the thir- 

 teenth volume of that collection. 



Lasp. — Laspeyres (J^ H.), a 

 municipal officer of Berlin. 



" Sesise Europeae, Iconibus et Descrip- 

 tionibus illustratse," 1 vol. 4to. Ber- 

 lin, 1801. 



" Critical observations on the Systema- 

 tic Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the 

 Environs of Vienna," inserted in the 

 Magazin fur Inseckteugunde of Illi- 

 ger, &c. 



Lath. — Latham (John), Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, born 1740. 



Tills author has enriched the science of 

 Ornithology, in particular, with new 

 and beautiful species, but his works, 

 which are not wxitten with critical ac- 

 curacy, should be read with caution. 



" A General Synopsis of Birds," 3 vols. 

 4to. and two Supplements. London, 

 1782, et seq. 



"Index Omithologicus," "2 vols. 4to. 

 London, 1790. 



Lat. — Latreille (Pierre-An- 

 dre), Professor of the Museum d' 

 Histoire Naturelle, member of the 

 Academic des Sciences, &c. born at 

 Brives, in 1762. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Salamandres," 

 1 vol. 8vo. wth plates. Paris, 1800. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles," form- 

 ing a seqiiel to Deterville's BuITon, 4 

 vols. 12mo. Mith nlates. 



" Precis des Caracteves Generiques des 

 Insectes," 1 vol. 8vo. Brives, 17f'fi. 



" Genera Crustaccoruni et Insectonnn," 

 4 vols. 8vo. with plates. Paris, 1806 

 —1807. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces et 

 des Insectes," forming a sequel to 

 Sonnini's edition of Buffon, 14 vols. 

 8vo. M-ith plates. Paris, 180-2—1805. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Fourmis," 1 

 vol. 8vo. with plates. Paris, 1802. 



His Memoirs inserted in the Annales du 

 Museum, &c. 



The entomological portion (partly vrvit- 

 ten by him ) of the Nouveau Diction- 

 naire d'Histoire Naturelle, and of the 

 Encyclopedic Methodique, and the 

 whole of the same part in the Obser- 

 vations de Zoologie et d' Anatomic 

 Comparee, or the second part of the 

 Travels of Messrs. de Humboldt and 

 Aime Bompland. 



" Memoires de la Soc. d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle do Paris," 4to. 



" Esquisse d'une Distribution Generale 

 du Regne Animal," 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 

 1824. 



" Families Naturelles du Regne Ani- 

 mal," 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1825. 



Various general Memoirs on Insects, 

 published among those of Mus. d' 

 Hist. Nat. 



The description of the Insects col- 

 lected by Caillaud in his travels in 

 Nubia, which forms part of this Nar- 

 rative. 



The Entomological portion of the se- 

 cond edition of the Nouveau Diction- 

 naire d'Histoire Naturelle, and vari- 

 ous articles of the Dictionnaire Clas- 

 sique d'Histoire Naturelle, as well as 

 those relative to the same subject, of 

 the Encyclopedic Methodique. 



The description (Ann. der Sc- Gcner.), 

 of a new genus of Spider. 



Laur. or Laurent. — Lauren- 

 TiNi (J. N. ), a physician of Vienna. 



" Specimen medicum cxhibens Synop- 

 sin Reptilium emendatum," 1 vol. 

 8vo. Vienna, 17C8. 



This thesis is said to have been written 

 by Winterl, since celebrated as a pa- 

 radoxical chemist. 



Leach (W. E.), an English phy- 

 sician and naturalist, one of the Cu- 

 rators of the British Museum. 



A Monogi'aph of llic genus INIcloe, 

 with plates, inserted in the Transac- 

 tions of the Ijinnu'an Society. 

 " MalacostracaPodophthalniii Britaunia\" 

 4to. with fine coloured plates. Iaui- 

 don, 1815, 181b'. Eightnumbcrs have 

 lieen published. 



" A General Arrangement of the Classes 

 Crustacea, Mniapoda and Arnchiiides, 

 constituting part of the eleventh vo- 



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