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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



Such are the various titles of the Me- 

 moirs of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences of St. Fetersbiirg. 



The " Commentarii," 14 vols. 4to.from 

 1726 to 1746. 



The " Novi Commentarii," 20 vols. 

 from 1749 to 1775. 



The " Acta," 7 vols, from 1777 to 17B2. 



The "Nova Acta," 15 vols, from 1783 

 to 1802. 



The " Memoirs," from 1809. 



Phelsum (Murck Van), a Dutch 

 naturalist. 



Quoted for his " Letter to C Xose- 

 man on the Echini," 8vo. Rotterdam, 

 1774. 



Phillip (Arthur), a German, and 

 Governor of Botany Bay, in the 

 EngUsh Service. 



" The Voyage of Governor Phillip to 

 Botany Bay," &c., \%itli fifty-five 

 coloured plates, London, 1789. An 

 anonymous work, the 'part relative to 

 natural history by Latham. There is 

 a French translation of it wtliout 

 plates, in 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 1791. 



Phipps (C. J.), the celebrated 

 English na%'igator, subsequently 

 Lord Mulgrave ; born 1746, died 

 1792. 



" Voyage to the North Pole in 1 773," 

 translated into French by Desmeu- 

 niers, 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1775. 



Planc. — Plancus (Janus) or J. 

 BiANCHi, a physician of Rimini, 

 bora in 1693, died in 1775. 



" De Conchis minus notis," 1 vol. 4to. 

 with plates. Venice, 1739. The 

 second edition gi'eatlv enlarged. Rome, 

 1760. 



Pl. Col.- — Planches Colo- 



RIEES. 



" Planches Coloriees des Oiseaux, par 

 MM. Temminck and Laugier," 4to. 

 and folio, a great work, which forms 

 a sequel to the Planches Enluminees, 

 &c. of Buffon. 



Pl. Enl. — Planches Enlumi- 

 nees. 



The coloured plates of Birds, pulilished 

 for Buifon's Natural History, by Du- 

 benton, Jun., amounting to one thou- 

 sand and eight, but arranged without 

 order. It is bevnnd all do\ilit the 



richest collection of that class that 

 lias ever appeared. Most of the 

 figures are good. 



Plum. — Plumier (Charles), 

 who travelled for a long time in 

 the service of Louis the Fourteenth ; 

 he was a great naturalist in all the 

 branches of the science, although 

 several of his works have remained 

 unpublished. 



I have had occasion to quote his Obser- 

 vations on Fishes and Reptiles, part of 

 which are at Paris and part at Berlin, 

 all in MS., Arith numerous drawings ; 

 a portion of them has been published 

 Viy Bloch and Lacepede. 



PoLi, a naturalist and anatomist 

 at Naples, author of the magnificent 

 work, entitled 



" Testacea utriusque Sicilian eorumque 

 Historia et Anatome," 2 vols, folio. 

 Parma, 1791 and 1795. A third 

 volume has been lately published^ 



PuEv. — Prevost (Benedict). 



" Memoire sur le Chirocephale," pub- 

 lished at the end of the Histoire des 

 Monocles of Jurine. See Jurine. 



Preys. — Preysler (J. D.) 



" "Werzeichniss Bochmischer Insecten," 

 1 vol. 4to. Prague, 1790. 



Pr.Max. — Maxim ilianPrince, 

 de Wied-Neuwied. 



His " Voyage to Brazil," 2 vols. 4to. 

 with an atlas, Franckf., 1820 and 

 1821, his "Natural History of Bra- 

 zil," of which two vols. 8vo. were 

 published at "Weimar, 1826, and 

 several numbers of coloured plates, in 

 folio. These are among the number 

 of those productions of modern times 

 which are richest in novelties. 



Prun. — Prunner (Leonard de). 



" Lepidoptera Pcdemontana," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Turin, 1798. 



; Q. and G. or Quoy and Gaym., 

 or Gaim. — Quoy and Gaymard, 

 fellow travellers who have already 

 made two great voyages. 



They have published the " Zoologie du 

 Voyage de TUranie," 1 vol. Paris, 

 1824, with one volume folio of plates. 

 They are at present occupied with 



