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Camilli, C. 



Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum 

 ItalisB. Basileae, 1561, 3, [5 p.] fol.) 



Pre-Linn. 1561.1 

 Fish-fauna of lake Como and its tributaries. 



Campbell, John [1708-1775] An 

 exact and authentic account of the 

 greatest white-herring-fishery in Scot- 

 land, carried on yearly in the island of 

 Zetland, by the Dutch only, etc. 

 Edinburgh, 1750. iv, 33 p. sm. 8°. 

 Pre-Linn. 1750.1 



Some copies of the 2Dd ed., publislied in 

 1753, liave the title "A true and exact descrip- 

 tion of the island of Shetland." etc. 



Reprinted, Edinburgh, 1885. 6,iv, 33p. 12°. 



Camper, Peter [1722-1789] Ob die 

 Fisohe alle taub und stumm seyn. 

 Stuttgard. Sel. Phys. Oecon., [c. 1756], 

 1, 405. Pre-Linn. 1756.1 



Candidus, Decembrus Peter (also 

 styled Piercandido Decembrio) 



[1399-1477] De animantium naturis 

 ac rebus memoria et annotatione dignis. 

 Editi a Candido feliciter D. L. 1460. 

 Pre-Linn. 1460.1 



74 fishes are described. 



This illustrated codex is preserved in the 

 Vatican library. A modern rendition with pres- 

 ent day identifications and many notes is: 



Killermann, Seb. Das Thierbuch des Petrus 

 Candidus geschrieben 1460, gemalt im 16. Jahr- 

 hundert. (Codex Vaticanus Urb. lat. 276). 

 Zool. Annalen, 1914, 6, 113-221. 8 pis. 



Cardano, Girolamo iHieronymus] 

 [1501 or 08-1576] For memoirs, see 

 Mantovani, V. " Vita di Girolamo 

 Cardano, Milanese filosopho, medico, e 

 letterato." Milan, 1821; also Morley, 

 Henry, " The life of Girolamo Cardano 

 of Milan, physician." 2 vols. London, 

 1854. 



De subtilitate hbri xxi, etc. 



Basiliae, et Lugduni, 1550, xlvi, 305 p. 

 fol. Pre-Linn. 1550.1 



The editio princeps. Reprinted Paris & Ley- 

 den, 1551; Basel & Leyden, 1553. True 2nd ed., 

 Basel & Leyden, 1554. 3rd ed. in Latin, Basel, 

 1660. Many other eds. (at least 13) of this 

 popular work were issued 1561-1664; 12 before 

 1584. French versions, Paris, 1656 and 1584; 

 Rouen, 1642; German, Basel, 1559. 



Considerable data about various fishes are 

 given. 



De rerum varietate libri xvii. 



Basiliae, 1557. xii, 707, 32 p. ills. fol. 

 Pre-Linn. 1557.1 



First ed. Others: Basel, 1567, 1564, 1580, 

 1581; Avignon, 1558; Leyden, 1580 — editio re- 

 cognita. 



The anatomy of several fishes is described in 

 book VII. 



— — Hieronymi Cardani Mediola- 

 nensis philosophi ac medici celeb errimi 



Operum, tomus tertius; quo continen- 

 tur physica, etc. Lugduni, 1564. 



Pre-Linn. 1564.1 



Cap. 37. "Piscium differentise ac genera," 

 p. 112-139. 



Other eds. of the "Opera": Geneva, 1624; 

 Leyden, 1663. (10 vols, each.) 



Carleson, Eduard. Aufmunterung 

 zur Einrichtung einer Fiseherey in 

 Schweden. Stockholm. Mag. 1754, 1, 

 107. Pre-Linn. 1754.1 



Casserius, Jules [1545-1616] De 

 vocis auditusque organis historia ana- 

 tomioa. 2 vols, [in li. Ferrari®, 1601. 

 ills. Pre-Linn. 1601.1 



Pentasstheseion, hoc est de 



quinque sensibus liber, organorum 

 fabricam, actionem et usum continens. 

 Venetii, 1609. 354 p. figs. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1609.1 



Other eds.: Venice, 1627; Frankfort, 1610, 

 1612, 1632. 



Nova anatomia, continens accu- 



ratem organorum sensilium, etc. Frank- 

 fort, 1622. Pre-Linn. 1622.1 



In all these works, Casserius, the pupil and 

 successor of Fabricius ab Aquapendente, de- 

 scribes the eye and ear of various fishes ; the pike 

 particularly. 



Cassiodorus, Magnus Aurelius [c. 

 490-685] For a sketch of his life and 

 works, see A. Franz (Breslau, 1872), 

 who says of Cassiodorus: "One can 

 with perfect fairness claim for Cassio- 

 dorus the honor of first having brought 

 into cloister life the fostering of science." 



Opera ledilio princeps]. Paris, 



1579. Pre-Linn. 1579.1 



Other early eds.: Orleans, 1622; Rouen, 1679; 

 & Venice, 1729. The "Epistote" therein con- 

 tained have many notes on fishes and their 

 habits. Among the fishes is the Exormiston, 

 which has been identified by Dr. T. N. Gill as a 

 Leptocephalus. 



For a present day version of the "Epistolse" 

 with a good index, see; 



"The letters of Cassiodorus, being a con- 

 densed translation of the 'Varise' epistolse of 

 Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus." Translation 

 with introduction by Thomas Hodgkin. Lon- 

 don, 1886. 560 p. 12°. 



Castrillo, Hernando. Historia y 

 magia natural, o ciencia de filosofia 

 oculta, con nuevas notioias de los mas 

 profundos mysterios, y seeretos del 

 universo visible, en que se trata de 

 animales, pezes, etc. Madrid, 1692. 

 14, 342, 16 p. 8°. 



Catesby, Mark [1679-1749] The 

 natural history of Carolina, Florida, and 

 the Bahama islands; containing the 



