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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



WAL 



Walton, I. 



, Der vollkommene Angler von Isaac Walton 

 und Charles Cotton, herausgegeben von Ephe- 

 mera, iibersetzt von I. F. Schumacher. Ham- 

 burgh, 1859. xii, 308 p. 10 pis. 8". 



Walton is said to have taken his idea of the 

 angler from Nicholas Breton's "Wit's-French- 

 man." 1597. (g. v.) 



Walton, /., & Cotton, C. See Wal- 

 ton, I, 1676.1; and Cotton, C. 1676.1 



Wardenburg, C. Th. Dissertatio 

 quaedam circa jus piscatus. Lugduni- 

 Batavorum, 1757. 4°. Pre-Linn. 1757.1 



Warren, G. An impartial description 

 of Surinam upon the continent of Gui- 

 ana in America. With a history of 

 several strange beasts, birds, fishes, 

 serpents, etc. London, 1667. 28 p. 

 4°. Pre-Linn. 1667.1 



Mentions swordfish and electric eel. 



Watson, Frederic. The animal- 

 world displayed, or the nature, and 

 qualities of living creatures described 

 under the denominations of birds, 

 beasts, fishes and serpents, etc. Lon- 

 don, 1754. pi. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1754.1 



A Dutch version is: 



De dierlyke wereld ter beschonwinge openge- 

 zet. Uit het Engl, mit merklijke verbeteringen 

 en aanterkeningen door C. Nozeman. Amster- 

 dam, 1761. ills. 8°. 



Watson, William [1715-1787] An 

 account of Mr. Samuel TuU's method 

 of castrating fish. Phil. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. 1754 (1755), 48, pt. 2, 870-874, 



Pre-Linn. 1755.1 



This account excited great interest and was 

 much copied or abstracted. See Gentleman's 

 Mag. Hist. Chron. (Urban's], 21, 410. Ibid., 25, 

 416. — London Mag., 24, 422. — Ditgez. Verb., 

 1757, 1, 389. Abstract in Comment. Lipsiens., 

 6, 595. — Mag. Anglais, 1765, (Jan.), art. 4. — 

 Phyeikal. Oecon. Patriot., 1. Th., 337. — Han- 

 nover Mag., 1765, 689. — Phys.-Belustig., 

 Berlin, 1755. — Comm. de Rebus, 5, 595. — 

 Schauplatz Kunst Handw., 13. Th., 72. 



Wecker, John. 18 books of the se- 

 crets of nature and art. First designed 

 by John Wecker . . . augmented and 

 enlarged by Dr. R. Read. London. 

 1660. fol. Pre-Linn. 1660.1 



Book VII, pp. 134-8, "Secrets of fish and 

 fishing." 



Wedel, George Wolfgang [1645-1721] 

 De Trutta saxatilis. Ephemer. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur., 1673-74 (1688), 1. dec, ann, 

 4 & 5, 74-76. Pre-Linn. 1688.1 



Weickmann, Christoph. Verzeich- 

 niss unterschiedlicher Thiere, Vogel, 

 Fische, Meergewachse, Erz-und Berg- 

 arten, edlen und andern Steinen. Ulm, 

 1655. 8°. Pre-Linn. 1655.1 



Ist ed. not known. Later ones with slightly 

 varying titles are: 



Exoticophylacium Weickman- 



nianum, oder Verzeichniss unterschied- 

 licher Vogel, Thier, Fisch, Gewachs, 

 Erz- und Bergarten, so in C. Weick- 

 manns Kunst- und Natural-Cammer in 

 Ulm zu sehen. Ulm, 1659. 12°. 



Pre-Linn. 1659.1 



— — Exoticophylacium Weickman- 

 nianum. Oder: Verzeichnuss unter- 

 schiedlicher Thier, Vogel, Fisch, Meer- 

 Gewachs, Ertz- und Berg-Arten, &c. so 

 in der Kunst- und Natural-Kammer des 

 weyland Herrn Christoph Weickmanns 

 . . . zu finden. , 1741. 77 p. 2 pis. 

 8?. Pre-Linn. 1741.1 



Werlosching, Johann Baptist. De 

 mirabile piscatione in certo Styrise lacu, 

 post certam piscium quantitatem cap- 

 tam tempestatem inducens. Misc. 

 Acad. Nat. Cur. 1701 — 1705, dec. 3, 

 ann. 9 & 10, 42. Pre-Linn. 1701.1 



■ De exstruendis piscinis. (In 



Ellis, William. Modern Husbandman, 

 1750, p. 59.) Pre-Linn. 1750.1 



German translation, Allgem. Magazin, pt. ll, 

 44. — Dresdner Gel. Anz., 1757, 709. 



Westbeck, Zacharias. Beschreibung 

 der Skot-Spiggs-Fischerey, und wie aus 

 diesen Fische ein Oehl gesotten wird. 

 Konig. Schwed. Akad. Abhandl., 1754, 

 15, 265. Pre-Linn. 1754.1 



See note under Kastner, A. G., this section. 



Beslcrifning pa skot-spiggs- 



fisket, och huru olia kokas af denna fisk. 

 K. Swensk. Vetensk. Acad. Handl., 

 1754, 15, 261-266. Pre-Linn. 1754.2 



Refers to Gasterosteus aculeatus. 



Westphalus, /. C. Piscinae publicse 

 Lissensi prope delitium supernatante. 

 Nouv. Liter. German. Hamburg, 1705, 

 103. Pre-Linn. 1705.1 



Whitbourne, Richard [ft. 1579-1627] 

 A discourse and discovery of New- 

 foundland with many reasons to proove 

 how worthy and benefioiall a plantation 

 may there be made, after a far better 

 manner than now it is, etc. London, 

 1622. 107, 15 p. sm. 4°. 



Pre-Linn. 1622.1 



Reference to cod-fishing (p. 11-13) as carried 

 on by the Basques in 1615. 

 A modern version is: 



Westward Hoe for Avelon in the Newfound- 

 land, as described by Capt. Richard Whitbourne 

 of Exmouth, Devon. 1622. Edited and illus- 

 trated by T. Whitburn. London, 1870. 8°. 



Williams, {Captain) Griffith. An 



account of the Island of Newfoundland, 



its trade and fishery. 1705. 35 p. 8°. 



Pre-Linn. 1705.1 



