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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



of the work of the late Palisot de 

 Beauvois on the Insects collected by 

 him in Afinca and America ; as well 

 as extracts from various works on 

 Insects, in the " Bulletin Universel" 

 of Baron Ferussac. 



Shaw (Thomas), a theologian of 

 Oxford, who travelled in Africa and 

 the Levant. 



His work, published in English at Ox- 

 ford, in folio, 1738, has been trans- 

 lated into French imder the title of 

 " Voyage dans plusieurs parties de la 

 Barbaric et du Levant," 2 vols. 4to. 

 La Have, 1743. 



Sh. or Shaw. — Shaw (George), 

 Adjunct Librarian of the British 

 Museum, a laborious compiler and 

 describer, died in IS 15. 



" The Naturalist's Miscellany," 8vo. 

 London, 1789, et seq.; a numerous 

 collection of coloured plates, mostly 

 copies, Arith some that are original. 



"General Zoology," London, 1800, et 

 seq., several volumes, 8vo. 'uith plates, 

 most of them copies. 



" Zoology of New Holland," a few num- 

 bers, 8vo. London, 1794 et seq. 

 The work remains unfinished. 



Sloane (Hans), a former Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society, born in 

 1660, died in 1753. 



" Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Bar- 

 badoes, Nevis, St. Christopher and 

 Jamaica," ■\\ith 274 indifferent or bad 

 plates, 2 vols, folio. London, 1707, 

 1727. 



Smeath. — Smeathman (Hen.) 



His History of the Termites, published 

 in the seventy-first volume of the 

 Philosophical Transactions, has been 

 translated into French by Dr. Rigaud 

 of Montpellier, and inserted in the 

 French translation of Sparrman's 

 Voyage. 



Smith (Hamilton), an officer in 

 the English semce and a learned 

 naturalist. 



Author of a great portion of the addi- 

 tions to the English translation of the 

 Regne Animal, and particularly of the 

 Synopsis Mammalium, which termi- 

 nates the third volume. 



Soc. Nat. Bekl., or Berl. Mem., 

 or Nat. of Berl., or Berl. Nat. 



The Memoirs of this Society have ap- 

 peared successively under four differ- 

 ent titles, in German. 



1. " Beschaeftigungen," (Occupations), 

 4 vols. 8vo. 1775 — 1779. 



2. "■ Schriften," (Writings), 11 vols. 8vo. 

 1780 — 1794, the five last of which are 

 also styled " Beobachtungen and Ent- 

 decktmgen," (Observations and Dis- 

 coveries). 



3. " Neue Schriften," (New Writings), 

 4to. 1795—17 . 



4. " Magazin," &c. (The Magazine of 

 New Discoveries in Natural History), 

 quarterly from 1807. 



Sold. — Soedani (Ambrosio), 

 General of the Camaldolites, sub- 

 sequently Professor at Siena, author 

 of various works on Microscopic 

 Testacea, both fossil and recent. 



"Saggio OritogTafico Ovvero Osserva- 



tioni sopra le Terre Nautilitiche," &c. 



1 vol. 4to. Siena, 1780. 

 " Testaceogi-aphia ac Zoophytographia 



Parva et Microscopica," 3 vols. foUo. 



Siena, 1789—1798. 



SoNiVER. — Sonnerat, bom at 

 Lyons, died in Paris, 1814, an inde- 

 fatigable collector. 



" Voyage a la Nouvelle-Guinee," with 



one hundred and twenty plates, 4to. 



Paris, 1776. His first voyage. 

 '' Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la 



Chme," from 1774 to 1781, 2vols.4to. 



■with one hundred and forty plates. 



Paris, 1782. His second voyage. 



SoNNiNi deManoncourt(C. S.) 

 engineer, born at Lorraine, died in 

 Wallachia in 1814. I quote his 



" Voyage dans la Haute et Basse 

 Eg^-pte," with an atlas of fortv plates, 

 Svols. 8vo. Paris, 1799. 



And sometimes his edition of Buffon, 

 8vo. Paris, Dufart, 1798. 



Sowerb. — SowERBY (Jas.), and 

 Sowerby (G. B.), his son, English 

 naturalists and artists. 



" The Genera of recent and fossil 

 Shells," thirty numbei's, 8vo, 



" Fossil Conchology," 



Various papers in the Zoological Jour- 

 nal. 



Spall. — SpALLANZANi(Lazzai'o), 

 the celebrated observer. Professor 

 at Reggio, then at Modena, and 

 finally at Pavia, bom in 1729, died 



