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Kaempfer, Engelbert [1651-1716] 

 For a sketch of his life, see the fourth 

 entry below. 



Dissertatio medica inauguralis 



sistens deoadem observationem exotica- 

 rum. Lugduni Batavorum, 1694. 4°. 

 Pre-Linn. 1694.1 



"In ea agitur de . . . torpedine Sinus per- 

 sici . . ." 



AmcEnitatum exoticarum poli- 



tico-physico-medioarum fasciculi v, 

 quibus continentur varise relationes, 

 observationes et descriptiones rerum 

 Persicarum et ulterioris Asiae, etc. 

 Lemgovise, 1712. xiv, 912 p. 16 pis. 

 4°. Pre-Linn. 1712.1 



Torpedo sinus persici, p. 509-515. fig. 



• Anatome torpedinis sinus Per- 

 sici. (In Valentini, M. B. Amphithea- 

 trum Zootomicum, Francofurti, 1720, 

 pt. II, 115-117. pi. 59.) 



Pre-Linn. 1720.1 



The history of Japan, giving an 



account of . . . its metals, minerals, 

 trees, plants, animals, birds and fishes 

 . . . with a description of . . . Siam. 

 Written in High-Dutch . . . and trans- 

 lated ... by J. G. Scheuohzer . . . 

 with the life of the author and an intro- 

 duction, etc. 2 vols. London, 1727. 

 lii, 612, 75, 11 p. 45 pis. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1727.1 



Fishes, p. 34; 95-101. pis. 

 Various versions and editions follow. 



■ Histoire naturelle . . . de I'em- 



pire du Japon . . . traduite en Fran- 

 cois sur la version Angloise de J. G. 

 Scheuchzer. 2 vols. La Haye, 1729. 

 illust. fol. Pre-Linn. 1729.1 



Another French ed.; 3 vols. Amsterdam, 1732. 



— ■ — • De beschryving van Japan . . . 

 Uyt hat Engelsch [of J. G. Scheuchzer] 

 in 't Nederduytsch vertdalt. Amster- 

 dam, 1729. 50, 500 p. 32 pis. 6 maps, 

 fol. Pre-Linn. 1729.2 



Also published in abbreviated form in Arkstee 

 & Merkus, "Allg. Hist. Reisen," 1753, vol. XI; 

 and in Pinkerton's Voyages, 1811, vol. VII. 



Other eds. are: London (2nd English ed.), 

 1728; The Hague, 1729 (2 ede. French & Dutch), 

 1731 & 1732; Rostock, 1749 (German); Moscow, 



1773 (Russian) ; Lemgo, 1774, 1777, 1779 (Ger- 

 man). 



The excellent English version of 1729 is avail- 

 able for present day readers as; 



The history of Japan with a description of 

 the kingdom of Siam, 1690-92 (J. G. Scheuch- 

 zer trans.) 3 vols. London, 1729. Reprinted 

 by James McLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1906. 



The fishes of Japan with vernacular and 

 Dutch names and 12 figs., vol. I, p. 217-235. 

 Poisonous fishes, p. 217-222. 



Kastner, A. G. (translator) [1719- 

 1800] Kastner translated Kongliga 

 Swenska Wetenskaps Academien Hand- 

 lingar, 1739-1779, 40 vols., into Ger- 

 man and published the series at Ham- 

 burg and Leipsic, 1749-1783, in 41 vols, 

 under the title Der Koniglicher Schwe- 

 dischen Akademie Abhandlungen. Of 

 the Nya Handlingar (1780-1812), he 

 translated the issues for the years 1780- 

 1790 and published them in 12 volumes 

 at Leipsic in 1784r-92, under the title 

 Neue Abhandlungen, etc. This will ex- 



Elain why the same article appears in 

 oth Swedish and German. 



Kalm, Pehr [1715-1779] P. Kalm's 

 . . . Wastgotha och Bohuslandska resa. 

 Forrattad Sr 1742. Med anmarkningar 

 uti historia naturali, physique, medicine 

 etc. Stockholm, 1746. iv, 304, 14 p. 

 illust. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1746.1 



Some fishes mentioned. 



(prceses) Enfalliga anmarknin- 

 gar om Ost-Giotha Skare Boars ofliga 

 fiskesatt i Ostersjon. Inaug. Dissert. 

 Abo, 1753. 46 p. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1753.1 



Johannes Eliaeson Enholm, res-pond. 

 Pisces, p. 8-20. A 2nd ed.: Abo, 1754. 



28 p. 



(prases). Dissertatio de causis 



diminutionis piscium. Aboae, 1757, 9 p. 

 4°. Pre-Linn. 1757.1 



Gust. Lindblad, respond. 



For later works of P. Kalm, see in Vol. I. 



Kamel, George Joseph [1661-1706] 

 De piscibus, moUuscis et crustaceis Phi- 

 lippensibus. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 London, 1705 (1706), 24, 2043-2080. 



Pre-Linn. 1706.1 



Kannegiesser, Goillieb Heinrich. De 

 cura piscium per Slesvioi et Holsatias 



