ALPHABETICAL TABLE 
OF 
AUTHORS QUOTED IN THIS WORK. 
In explaining the abbreviations employed to indicate the numerous 
writers necessarily referred to in this work, it has been thought useful to 
give the reader a general idea of their profession, the period of their birth 
and decease, and of the character of their writings. 
Abild. — Abildgaardt (Peter 
Christian), a Danish naturalist ; 
Professor at Copenhagen, died in 
1808. 
One of the continuers of the Zoologia 
Danica of Muller, and author of va- 
rious Memoirs published among those 
of the Society of Natural History, 
and of The Royal Society of Sciences 
of Copenhagen, as well as of the So- 
ciety of Naturalists of Berlin. 
Acad, des Sc. 
I thus quote the“ Memoires del’Acade- 
mie des Sciences,” of Paris, of which 
one quarto volume was annually pub- 
lished from 1700 to 1790. 
I have also occasionally quoted the “ Me- 
moires des Savans Etrangers a 1’ Acade- 
mic, ” eleven volumes, from 1750 to 
1786. 
I have also frequently quoted the ‘ ‘ Me- 
moirs of the Academy of Berlin” from 
1819, and the new ones of the Aca- 
demia Naturae Curiosorum of Bonn, 
from Vol. IX. 1818, at which period 
they assumed their new form. 
For those of the Academy of Petersburg, 
see Peteroh. or Petrop. 
Acosta or rather Mendez da 
Costa (Emmanuel), a Portuguese 
naturalist, resident in London. 
“ Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Bri- 
tanniae,” 1 vol. 4to. London, 1778. 
Ad anson (Michael), born at Aix 
in 1727, and died in Paris 1806, 
Member of the Academie des Sci- 
ences, and one of the first natural- 
ists who attempted the classification 
of Shells according to their animals. 
“ Histoire Naturelle des Coquillages du 
Senegal,” 1775, 1 vol. 4to. 
Agassis, a German naturalist. 
Editor of the “ Fishes of Spix,” and au- 
thor of Memoirs in the Isis. 
Ahr. — Ahrens. 
“ August! Ahrensii, Fauna Insectorum 
Europae, fascic. I — XII.” 
Alb. or Albin. — Alein (Elea- 
zar), an English painter. 
“ A Natural History of Birds,” 3 vols. 
4to. London, 1731' — 38, containing 306 
indifferent coloured plates. 
“A Natural History of Spiders,” 1 vol. 
4to. with plates. London, 1736. 
ALBiNus(Bernard-Sigefroy) Pro- 
fessor at Leyden, and one of the great 
anatomists of the eighteenth century, 
born at Frankfort in 1697, died in 
1770. 
We have only had occasion to quote 
him for the description of the Penna- 
tulae inserted in the “ Annotationes 
Academicae,” 8 Nos. in 4to. Leyden, 
1754—1768. 
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