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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



SIB 



Sibbald, R. 



Scotia illustrate sive prodromus 



historia naturalis. Edinburgh, 1684. 

 382 p. fol. Pre-Linn. 1684.1 



In parts paged separately. 



"Para secunda specialis. Tomus secundus, 

 De animalibus ScotiEE — De piscibus," p. 22-26. 

 pis. (7 fishes figured.) 



2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1696. 



The history ancient and mod- 

 ern of the sheriffdoms of Fife and Kin- 

 ross, with the description of both, and 

 of the firths of Forth and Tay, and the 

 islands in them; with an account of the 

 natural products of the land and waters. 

 Edinburgh, 1710. fol. Pre-Linn. 1710.1 



Fishes, p. 118-129. 



1st ed. Reprinted, 1803 — an exact copy. 



Copy, N. Y. P. 



A advertisement anent the 



Xiphias or swordfish exposed at Edin- 

 burg. in. p., n. d.i 



Sidren, /. De materia medica e 

 regno animali dissertatio. Upsala, 1750. 

 24 p. Pre-Linn. 1750.1 



Fishes, p. 293-295. 



As a separate. Another issue in Linnseus, C. 

 Amcenitates Academicae, 1751, 2, no. 28; also in 

 other eds. of this latter, 1762, & 1787. Copy, H. 



Siegesbeck, Johannes Georg [1686- 

 1755] Anmerckung iiber die denen 

 Annalibus Medico Physicis Part, xvi, 

 p. 635, inserirte Relation von dem Fi- 

 sche Carcharias, und zugleich tiber die 

 beygefiigte Meinung derer Gelehrten: 

 Das der Prophet Jonas von keinem 

 Wallfisch, sondern vielmehr von einem 

 solchen Raubfische Carcharias ver- 

 schlungen worden. Samml. Nat. u. 

 Med. Kunst. u. Litt.-Gesch. Breslau, 

 1725, sect. 31, 67. Pre-Linn. 1725.1 



Silos, Giiiheppe. Lettera al Sig. Pier 

 Carlo Berivenuti sopra la pesca del 

 pesce Spada. (In Scelte delle lettere 

 memorabili, raccolto dall' ab Michele 

 Giustiniani. Napoli, 1683. p. 153.) 



Pre-Linn. 1683.1 



Simson, Archibald [c. 1564-1628] 

 Hieroglyphica animalium, terrestrium, 

 volatilium, natatilium, reptilium, in- 

 sectorum, vegetivorum, metallorum, 

 lapidum, etc., quae in Scripturis Sacris 

 inveniuntur et plurimorum aliorum, 

 cum eorum interpretationibus. Edin- 

 burgi, 1622. 218 p. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1622.1 



Lib. III. De natatilibus. 19 p. 



2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1692. 



Sincerus, Alexander. Der in aller- 

 lei ergotzlichkeiten vergniigte Land- 

 mann darinnen allerhand zum Vogel- 



fang, Schiessen, Jagen und Fischerei 

 dientliche Ktinste enthalten sind. Ntirn- 

 berg, 1720. 12°. Pre-Linn. 1720.1 



2nd ed. Niirnberg, 1734. 



Sloane, {Sir) Hans [1660-1753] For 

 memoirs, see Jardine, (Sir) W. in 

 Naturalist's Library, 1836, vol. XIII; 

 or Ibid., 1845-46, vol. XXIII. Also 

 Jaeger, B. (In his Life of North Amer- 

 ican Insects, etc. 1854.) Short sketches 

 are in: Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1758; 

 Bibl. Sci., 10, pt. 11, 280; Leips. Gel. 

 Zeitg., 1753, 233; Tubing. Bericht., 

 1753, 10. St; Erlang. Gel. Beytr., 1753, 

 237. 



An account of the tongue of a 



Paslinaca marina, [Aetobatis] frequent 

 in the seas about Jamaica and lately 

 dug up in Maryland and England. 

 Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, 1697, 19, 674- 

 676. Pre-Linn. 1697.1 



A voyage to the islands Madera, 



Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and 

 Jamaica, with the natural history of the 

 herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, 

 fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c., of 

 the last of those islands, . . . Illus- 

 trated with the figures of the things 

 desorib'd which have not been hereto- 

 fore engraved. 2 vols. London, 1707- 

 25. cliv, 264, 156; xviii, 499 p. 270 

 pis. Pre-Linn. 1707.1 



Sloane's work and plates were constantly 

 cited by writers of the 18th century, as Catesby, 

 Edwards, Brisson, Linnaeus, etc. and are often 

 referred to still. 



Agassiz notes a Gernian version by Bernstiel, 

 Berlin, 1764. Engelmann, however, shows this 

 to be a translation of an English description of 

 Sloane's collections. 



Observations sur la castration 



des poissons pour les engraisser. M6m. 

 Acad. Sci. Paris, 1742 (1745), hist., 

 31-32. Pre-Linn. 1745.1 



Extract from a letter from Sloane to Geof- 

 froy, giving an account of experiments per- 

 formed by Samuel TuU. See in this connection, 

 Watson, W. 1754.1, this section. 



"Sir Hans Sloane died in 1763, 93 years of age, 

 leaving his library of fifty thousand volumes, a 

 cabinet of two hundred volumes of dried plants, 

 and an immense collection of other objects in 

 natural history, chiefly accumulated by himself, 

 to be offered to the nation for twenty thousand 

 pounds. This purchase being made by the 

 Government, originated the British Museum." 



Smallegange, M. Nieuwe cronyk 

 van Zeeland. Eerste (6dnig) deel. 

 Vervattende de voor dozen uitgegeven 

 cronyken van de Heeren Jacobus Eyn- 

 dius, en Johan Reygersberg. . . . etc. 

 Middelburg, 1696. fol. 



Pre-Linn. 1696.1 



Contains data about fishes and fisheries, pp 

 178-192. 



