QUOTED IN THIS WORK. 



321 



the plates are copied from Buffon, and 

 coloured from the descriptions, al- 

 though some of them are original and 

 good. 



SCHREIB. SCHREIBERS (CharlcS 



de). Director of the Imperial Mu- 

 seum of Vienna. 



The description of various unpublished 

 or but little known Coleoptera, with 

 plates, inserted in the sixth volume of 

 the Transactions of the Linneean So- 

 ciety. 



A Memoir on the Proteus in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions. 



SCHRCET. SCHRCETER, (J. S.), 



Lutheran superintendent at Butt- 

 stedt in the Duchy of Weimar, born 

 in 1735. Author of numerous 

 works on Conchyhology ; we quote 

 his 



" History of Fresh-water Shells" (in 

 German), 4to. Halle, 1779. 



SCHWEIG. ScHWEIGGER(A. F.), 



a Prussian naturalist who was as- 

 sassinated by his guide during a 

 journey in the interior of Sicily. 



" Prodromus Monographias Chelonio- 

 rum," in which he particularly des- 

 cribes the new species in the Museum 

 of Paris. It is published in the " Ar- 

 chives of Koenigsberg," for 1812. He 

 has also given us 



" Observations during his Travels," in 

 which he treats of the Corallines and 

 yellow Amber, 4to. Berlin, 1819. 



" A Manual of the Invertebrate and 

 Inarticulated Animals," 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Leipzic, 1820. 



SciLLA (Agostino), a Sicilian 

 painter. 



" La Vana Speculatione disingannatadal 

 Senso," 1 vol. 4to. Naples, 1670. 



The first exact comparison of fossils 

 with analogous recent bodies that was 

 instituted. There is a Latin transla- 

 tion of this work in 4to. Rome, 1752. 



Scop. — ScopoLi (J. A.). Profes- 

 sor of Botany and Chemistry at Pa- 

 via, born in 1723, died in 1788. 



" Entomologia Caruiolica," 1 vol. 8vo. 



Vindebona3, 1763. 

 " Delicise Florae et Faunx Insubricas," 



with plates, 4 vols, folio. Ticini, 1786 



—1788. 



Cuv. Tabic of Authors. 



" Introductio ad Historiam Naturalem," 



1 vol. Bvo. Pragffi, 1777. 

 " Anni Historici-Naturales V." Lipsas, 



1768 — 1772, united in 1 vol. 8vo. 

 He also published some plates which 



are but little known, forming a sequel 



to his "Entomologia Carniolica." 



ScoRESBY, an English navigator, 

 who re-discovered Oriental Green- 

 land, and author of 



"Arctic Regions," &c. 1 vol. London, 

 1816, which contains many valuable 

 observations on the Cetacea. 



See. — Seba (Albert), a druggist 

 of Amsterdam, born in 1665, died 

 in 1736. Celebrated for his 



^-^ Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium 

 Thesauri Accurata Descriptio," 4 vols, 

 folio. Amsterdam, 1734, 1765. 

 A work that I have frequently quoted, 

 because it is enriched with numerous 

 and excellent plates ; the text, how- 

 ever, is of no authority whatever, 

 being ^vTitten wthout accuracy or 

 judgment. 



Selby (P. J.) 



Author of " Illustrations of British Or- 

 nithology," 8vo. Edinburgh, 1825, 

 with a very large atlas, the most mag- 

 nificent work on Ornithology that 

 exists. 



He also published various papers in the 

 Zoological Journal, &c. 



Senguerd. — Senguerdius(Wo1- 

 ferd.) 



" Tractatus Physicus de Tarantula," 

 1 vol. 12mo. Lugduni Batavorum, 

 1668. 



Serres (Marcel de). Professor 

 of Mineralogy to the Faculte des 

 Sciences of Montpellier. Author 

 of 



" Memoire sur les yeux composes, et les 

 yeux lisses des Insectes," with plates, 

 1 vol. 8vo. Montpellier, 1813. 



Several Memoirs on the Anatomy of 

 Insects, published in the Annalcs du 

 Museum. 



Serv. — Serville, one of the 

 writers for the Entomological De- 

 partment of the Faune Frangaise, 

 and of the Encyclopedic Methodi- 

 que. 



He lias also published the last number 

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