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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 
and the Annales des Sciences Natur- 
elles ; also of the description of the 
Fishes of Egypt in the great work on 
that country. 
Geor. — Georgi (J. T.), a Ger- 
man naturalist, who travelled in the 
service of the Russian government 
in 1772, 1773, and 1774. 
His travels are printed in German, 2 
vols. 4to. Petersburg, 1775. 
Germar (Ernest Frederick), a 
German naturalist. 
“Dissertatio sistens Bombycum Species,” 
&c., 4to. Halle. 
He continues the “ Magazin fur Insec- 
tenkunde,” of Illiger. 
Gm. — Germar (E. Francis), 
Professor of Mineralogy at Halle. 
“ Magazin der Entomologie,” 4 vols. 
8 vo. Halle, 1813—1821. 
“ Insectorum Species Novae,” first vol. 
8vo. with plates. Halle, 1824. See 
Ahrens. 
Gesn.' — Gesner (Conrad), a 
physician at Zurich, bora 1516, 
died 1565. 
I quote his “History of Animals,” 3 
vols. folio, to which has been added 
a Treatise on Serpents, and one on 
the Scorpion. This work, which is 
arranged alphabetically, is an excel- 
lent compilation of all the knowledge 
of the ancients, and is enriched with 
useful observations, and numerous 
wood cuts, most of them good. 
Gilliams, an American natural- 
ist. 
Author of certain Memoirs on Reptiles 
and Fishes, published in the Journal 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia. 
Gioeni (Giuseppe), a Sicilian 
naturalist of the house of Angio. 
“ Description of a new family and of a 
new genus of the Testacea,” &c., in 
Italian, pamphlet, 8vo. Naples, 1783. 
It is the stomach of the Bulla lignaria, 
which he has converted into an 
animal. 
Giorna (M. P.), a Piedmontese 
naturalist, professor at Turin, born 
1741, died 1809. 
I quote some of his Memoirs, published 
among I those of the Academy of 
Turin. 
Gmelin (Samuel Theophilus), 
born at Tubingen 1743, a German 
naturalist and traveller in the ser- 
vice of Russia, from 1768 to 1774, 
at which period he died in Persia. 
His travels were published in German, 
4 vols. 4to. Petersburg, 1770 — 1784. 
They abound in valuable articles on 
Natural History. 
Gm. — Gmelin (John Frederic), 
Professor of Chemistry at Gottin- 
gen, born at Tubingen in 1748, 
died in 18 — . 
The author of the thirteenth and last 
edition of the “ Systema Naturae” 'of 
Linnaeus. His work, notwithstanding 
the ignorance of things, want of judg- 
ment, and crudity that it exhibits, is 
still necessary, as being the only 
tolerably complete account of what 
had been done down to 1790. 
Go dart (J. B.), Chief of the 
Lyceum of Bonn under the Imperial 
Regime, died 1825. 
Editor of the article “ Papillon” of the 
Encyclopedic Methodique. 
“ Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres 
ou Papillons de France,” 5 (first) vols. 
8vo., commenced in 1822. 
Goetz, or rather Goez. — Goeze 
(I. A. E.), pastor of Quedlimbourg, 
one of the principal writers on the 
Intestinal Worms, bora 1731, died 
1793. 
“ Natural History of Intestinal Worms” 
(in German), 1 vol. 4to. Bracken- 
berg, 1782. 
Goldfuss (G. A.), Professor at 
Bonn. 
“ A Manual of Zoology,” 2 vols. 8vo. 
Nuremberg, 1820. 
Author of various memoirs published 
among those of the Academia Naturae 
Curiosorum. 
Goran (Antoine), Professor at 
Montpellier. 
“ Historia Piscium,” 1 vol. 4to. Stras- 
burg, 1770. 
Of the numerous works published by 
this learned naturalist, the above is 
the only one we have had occasion to 
quote. Strictly speaking, it is a mere 
description of genera, but drawn up in 
