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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



PAU 



Paullini, C. F. 



De ovo quadrate. [Egg of ray 



or shark] Misc. Acad. Nat. Cur., 1701 

 & 1702, dec. 3, ann. 9 & 10, obs. 53, 

 p. 85. Pre-Linn., 1701.1 



Peacham, Henry [c. 1576-1643] The 



compleat gentleman . . . also certain 



necessarie instructions concerning the 



art of fishing. London, 1627. sm. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1627.1 



Other eds.: 1634 & 1661. 



Use of fish in heraldry in 1634 ed, 



Pechlin, Johannes Nicolaus [1646- 

 1706] Piscem Jonae deglutitorem non 

 fuisse balaenam. Lubec, 1697. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1697.1 



Perrault, Claude [1613-1688] For 

 biographies, see Gaz. Med., Paris, 1848, 

 3. sdr. 3, 291-331; and Journ. de Sant^, 

 Paris, 1902, 19, pt. 2, 81. 



Description anatomique d'un 



renard marin [Alopecias vulpes]. 1671- 

 1757. 8 p. 2 pis. Pre-Linn. 1671.1 



This paper contains what was long thought 

 to be the earliest known figure and description 

 of the si^iral valve of a shark. An earlier is 

 noted under Steno, N. 1664.1 & 2, this section. 

 Perrault's paper has been published at least 

 15 times. Nine of these issues have entirely 

 different sources of publication and are listed 

 herein. 



I. M6moires pour servir k I'histoire 

 naturelle des animaux. Paris, 1671-76. 

 xii, 207 p. 31 pis. fol. 



Other eds. bearing this title are, Paris, 1688, 

 1700; La Haye, 1731; Amsterdam, 1736, 1768. 



II. Essais de physique. 3 vols. 

 Paris, 1680. 8°. 



Renard marin, vol. Ill, p. 218. 

 Another ed., 4 vols. Paris, 1688. 



III. Description anatomique de di- 

 vers animaux dissequ^s dans I'aeadSmie 

 royale des sciences, etc. Paris, 1682. 

 4°. 



The 1st ed. bearing this title is not known. 

 An English version is: 



IV. Memoirs for a natural history of 

 animals. Containing the anatomical 

 descriptions of several creatures dis- 

 sected by the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences at Paris. London, 1688. 4°. 



Reissued, London, 1701, according to the 

 catalogue of the British Museum (Natural His- 

 tory) ; 1702, according to Engelmann. 



V. In Valentini, M. B. Amphithea- 

 trum Zootomicum, 1720, pt. ii, 82-84. 

 pi. 65. 



VI. Oeuvres diverses de physique et 

 de mdphanique. 2 vols. Leyden, 1721. 



Alopecias vulpes, vol. II, p. 439. 



vii. M^moires de I'acad^mie royale 

 des sciences depuis 1666 jusqu'^ 1699. 

 Paris, 1733, 3, 117-124. 2 pis. 



For notes on this revised ed. of Perrault's 

 paper, see the three unnumbered pages follow- 

 ing p. XX in this volume (3) cited. 



German versions follow. 



VIII. Zur natiirliche Historie der 

 Thiers dienliche Nachrichten. Niirn- 

 berg, 1753. 4°. 



IX. Abhandlungen zur Naturge- 

 Bchichte der Thiere und der Pflanzen. 

 Niirnberg, 1757. gr. 4°. 



Contains additional papers by Charas and 

 Dodart. 



For anonymous accounts of the dissection of 

 this shark, see Anon. 743 & 769 (1667). 



For a modern reprint of this much published 

 memoir, see Perrault, 1866.1. 



■ Observation sur I'ep^e qui est 



au milieu du museau de poisson nomm6 

 espadon, dont les points ne sont pas 

 adherentes k la partie osseuse. Mem. 

 Acad. Sci. Paris, 1686-1699 (1733), 2, 

 hist., 48. Pre-Linn. 1733.1 



Perrault, a distinguished architect, designer 

 and builder of the colonnade of the Louvre, was 

 also a physician and anatomist of parts. One 

 of the founders of the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences, he was one of its most active early mem- 

 bers. 



Petit, Frangois Pourfow du. See 

 Dupetit, F. P. 



Petiver, James [c. 1658-1718] For a 

 notice of Petiver's life, see in Trimen & 

 Dyer's " Flora of Middlesex." London, 

 1869. p. 379-385. 



— — Musei Petiveriani centurise x. 

 Animalia, plantas, fossilia ex variis 

 mundi plagis advecta, ordine digesta, 

 & nominibus propriis signata. Lon- 

 don, 1695-1703. 96 p. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1695.1 



Some British freshwater fishes described. 



Gazophylaci naturae et artis 



decades x, in quibus animalia quadru- 

 pedia, aves, pisces, reptilia, insecta, 

 vegetabilia, corpora marina, etc. de- 

 scriptionibus curtis et iconibus illus- 

 trantur. London, 1702-1706. 102 pis. 

 fol. Pre-Linn. 1702.1 



Some British and foreign fishes described. 



An account of animals and 



shells sent from Carolina to Mr. James 

 Petiver, F. R. S. Phil. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc, 1706, 24, 1952-1960. 



Pre-Linn. 1706.1 



Various forms of Glossopetras, p. 1960. 



— — De piscibus fluviatilibus Angli- 

 canis; an account of our freshwater 



