QUOTKD IN THIS WORK. 



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or rather Count John Maurice de 

 Nassau-Siegen, born 1604, the 

 Dutch governor of Brazil from 

 1637 to 1644. 



He encouraged tlie labours of Marcgi'ave 

 in that country, and drew several 

 fishes which have been engi'aved and 

 published in the Ichthyology of Block. 

 He died in the ser^^ce of Brande- 

 bourg in 1C79. 



Meckel (J. F.), Professor at 

 Halle. We quote his 



" Materials for Comparative Anatomy " 

 (in Geraian,) 8vo. Leipzic, 1808. 



" A treatise on the Omithorhynchus," 

 folio. Leipzic, 1826. 



Meg. — Megerle de Muhl- 



FIELD (J. C.) 



Author of " A Classification of Bivalve 

 Shells," inserted in the Magazine of 

 the Society of the Friends of Nature 

 of Berlin. 



Mehlis (Edward). 



" De Distomate Hepatico et Lanceo- 

 lato," folio. Gottingen, 1825. 



Meig. — Meigen (J. G.), a Ger- 

 man naturalist. 



This author has published (in German), 

 a work on the " Diptera of Europe," 

 now forming 5 vols. 8vo. accompanied 

 with plates representing at least one 

 species of each genus, with the details 

 of their characters. 



M. Baumauer published an extract from 

 the same work, under the title of a 

 " Nouvelle Classification des Mouches 

 a. deux ailes," 8vo. Paris, 1800. 



Mem. de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. 



" Memoires de la Societe d'Histoirc 

 Naturelle de Paris," 1 vol. 8vo, 1799, 

 tlie only one that appeared. 



There is another work vsdth a similar 

 title, in 3 vols. 4to. 1823, et seq. 



Merian (M. S.), a German lady 

 established in Holland, born 1647, 

 died 1717. She has left us two 

 posthumous works, remarkable for 

 the beauty of the drawings: 



" De Generatioue et Mctamorphosilnis 

 Insectorum Surinamensis," 1 vol. 

 folio. The Hague, 172(5. 



" Histoire des Insectes d'Europe," trans- 



lated into French by Mairet, 1 vol. 

 folio. Amsterdam, 1730. 



Merr. — Merrem (Blaise), born 

 at Bremen, Professor of Natural 

 History at Marburg. 



"■ Avium Rariorum et minus Cognita- 



rum Icones et Descript.," four N03. 



4to. Leipzic, 1786. 

 " Materials for tlie Natural History of 



Reptiles " (in German), 2 Nos. 4to. 



Duisbourg and Lemgo, 1790. All 



that it contains relates to Sei-pents. 

 " Tcntamen Systematis Amphibionim," 



in Latin and German, 1 vol. 8vo. 



Marburg, 1820. 



Mesnard. — Mesnard de la 

 Groye, a naturalist of Angers, and 

 my adjunct in the College de 

 France, died in J 827. 



Author of various Memoirs in the An- 

 nales du Museum, Journal de Phy- 

 sique, &c. 



Meyer and Wolf. 



" Taschenbuch," &c. or Almanack of 

 the Birds of German v, 2 vols. 8vo. 

 Franckfort, 1810. The first volume 

 contains the terrestrial birds by 

 Wolf; the second the water-birds by 

 Meyer. This work is filled with ex- 

 cellent obsei-vations. 



MiG. — Miger (Felix), a natu- 

 ralist at Paris. 



" Memoire sur les Larves des Insectes 

 Coleopteres Aquatiques," inserted in 

 the fourteenth volume of the An- 

 nales du Museum 



MiK.— Mikau (I.e.), a Bohe- 

 mian naturalist. 



" Monogi'aphia Bombyliorum Bohemia;," 

 with plates, 8vo. Prague, 1796. 



Miller (J. S.), an English na- 

 turalist. 



" Natural History of the Crinoides," 

 and a " Memoir on the Bclcmnites," 

 4to. Bristol, 1821. In the Transac- 

 tions of the Geological Society of 

 London, second series, vol. II. part I. 



Mitchell, an American natu- 

 ralist and physician. 



1 chiefly quote his work on the "■ Fishes 

 of New York," in tlic Trans, of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 New York. He has also published 



