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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



India by native painters, which, 

 under a barbarous appearance, ex- 

 hibit interesting and true species. 

 One vol. foho. Amsterdam, 1754. 



Reniert, an ItaUan naturahst. 

 Professor at Padua. 



Rets. — Rets i us, a Swedish na- 

 turahst. Professor at Lund. 



Author of a gTeatly enlarged edition of 

 the " Fanna Snecica" of Linntens, of 

 various theses, Sec. 



Richards. — RicHARDSON(John) 

 surgeon to the first expedition under 

 captain Frankhn. 



Author of the Zoological appendix at- 

 tached to the account of that voyage. 

 London, 1823, in 4to. 



Riss. — Risso (A.), a naturalist 

 of Nice, and a zealous observer. 



" Ichthyologie de Nice," &c., 1 vol. 

 8vo. Paris, 1810, a work of extreme 

 value on account of the numher of 

 new species which it contains. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Criistaces des 

 environs de Nice," 1 vol. 8vo. "with 

 plates. Paris, 1816. 



Tliese works have been reproduced in 

 his " Histoii'e Naturelle de T Europe 

 Merid.," 5 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1826. 



He has also published a description of 

 some new Crustacea in the Journal de 

 Physique. 



Robin. — Robineau Desvoidy, 

 physician at St. Sauveur, depart- 

 ment of the Yonne. 



" Rechcrches sur 1' Organization Verte- 

 brales des Crustaces, des Arachnides, 

 et des Insectes," 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 

 1828. 



" Essai sur la tribu des Culicides," in- 

 serted in the second volume of the 

 Memoii'es de la Societe d'Histoire 

 Naturelle. 



A gTeat work on tlie Muscida, which he 

 calls " Myodaires," published in the 

 Mem, des Savants Etrangeres, &c. 



" Observations on the Olfactory Organ 

 of the Crustacea, and on the use of 

 the Halteres of the Diptera." 



Rochefort (N.), a protestant 

 minister of Holland. 



" Nat^iral and Moral History of the 

 Antilles and America." The first 

 edition is anon\-mous, and published at 



Rotterdam, 1658. The part relative 

 to Natural History is copied from the 

 first edition of Dutertre, 1654 



RCEM. RCEMER (J. C.) 



" Genera Insectorum Linnoei et Fabricii, 



Iconibus illustrata," 1 vol. 4to. Vito- 



duri Helvetiorum, 1789. 

 His work is merely an edition of that 



of Sulzer on the same subject; with 



some new plates. 



RCES. RcESEL DE RoSENHOF (A. 



J.), a painter of Nuremberg, born 

 1705, died 1759, one the most in- 

 genious observers, and an able 

 painter of subjects of Natural His- 

 tory. 



" Historia Naturalis Ranarum nostra- 

 tium," 1 vol. folio. Nuremb., 1758. 



" Insecten-Belustigungen," with excel- 

 lent coloured plates, 4 vols. 4to. Nu- 

 remb., 174G, et seq. See Kleemann. 



RoG. — Roger, a naturalist of 

 Bourdeaux. 



" Instructions a I'usage des personnes 

 qui voudraient s'occuper a recueillir 

 des Insectes pour les Cabinets d'His- 

 toire Naturelle," 8vo. Bourdeaux. 



Roiss. — RoissY (Felix de), a 

 naturalist of Paris. 



He completed, by the 5th and 6th vols. 

 8vo. tlie " Histoire des Mollusques," 

 commenced by Denys de Montfort 

 for Sonuini's Buffon. 



Rondel. — Rondelet (Guil- 

 laume). Professor at Montpelier, 

 born 1507, died 1566. 



" Libri de Piscibus," 1 vol. folio. Ly- 

 ons, 1554. A work still useful for its 

 numerous wood-cuts. 



Ross. — Rossi (Pietro), an Italian 

 naturalist. Professor at Pisa, died in 

 18—. 



" Fauna Etrusca, sistens Insecta quae 

 in provinciis Florentina et Pisana 

 prfesertim collegit Petrus Rossius," 

 2 vols. 4to. with coloured plates. Li- 

 burni, 1790. 



" Mantissa Insectorum exhibens Spe- 

 cies nuper in Etruria collectas, aPetro 

 Rossio," &o. with coloured plates, 2 

 vols. 4to. Pisis, 1792—1794. 



Roux (Polydore), Curator of the 

 Museum of Marseilles. 



