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or rather Count John Maurice de 
Nassau-Siegen, born 1604, the 
Dutch governor of Brazil from 
1637 to 1644. 
He encouraged the labours of Marcgrave 
in that country, and drew several 
fishes which have been engraved and 
published in the Ichthyology of Block. 
He died in the service of Brande- 
hourg in 1679. 
Meckel (J. F.), Professor at 
Halle. We quote his 
“ Materials for Comparative Anatomy ” 
(in German,) 8vo. Leipzic, 1808. 
“ A treatise on the Ornithorhynchus,” 
folio. Leipzic, 1826. 
Meg. — Megerle de Muhl- 
FIELD (J. C.) 
Author of “ A Classification of Bivalve 
Shells,” inserted in the Magazine of 
the Society of the Friends of Nature 
of Berlin. 
Mehlis (Edward). 
“ De Distomate Hepatico et Lanceo- 
lato,” folio. Gottingen, 1825. 
Meig. — Meigen (J. G.), a Ger- 
man naturalist. 
This author has published (in German), 
a work on the “ Diptera of Europe,” 
now forming 5 vols. 8vo. accompanied 
with plates representing at least one 
species of each genus, with the details 
of their characters. 
M. Baumauer published an extract from 
the same work, under the title of a 
“ Nouvelle Classification des Mouches 
a deux ailes,” 8vo. Paris, 1800. 
Mem. de la Soc. d’Hist. Nat. 
“ Memoires de la Societe d’Histoire 
Naturelle de Paris,” 1 vol. 8vo, 1799, 
the only one that appeared. 
There is another work with a similar 
title, in 3 vols. 4to. 1823, et seq. 
Merian (M. S.), a German lady 
established in Holland, born 1647, 
died 1717- She has left us two 
posthumous works, remarkable for 
the beauty of the drawings : 
“ De Generatione et Metamorphosibus 
Insectorum Surinamensis,” 1 vol. 
folio. The Hague, 1726. 
“ Histoire des Insectes d’Europe,” trans- 
lated into French by Mairet, 1 vol. 
folio. Amsterdam, 1730. 
Merr. — Merrem (Blaise), bom 
at Bremen, Professor of Natural 
History at Marburg. 
“ Avium Rariorum et minus Cognita- 
rum leones et Descript.,” four Nos. 
4to. Leipzic, 1786. 
“ Materials for the Natural History of 
Reptiles ” (in German), 2 Nos. 4to. 
Duisbourg and Lemgo, 1790. All 
that it contains relates to Serpents. 
“ Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum,” 
in Latin and German, 1 vol. 8vo. 
Marburg, 1820. 
Mesnard. — Mesnard de la 
Groye, a naturalist of Angers, and 
my adjunct in the College de 
France, died in 1827- 
Author of various Memoirs in the An- 
nales du Museum, Journal de Phy- 
sique, &c. 
Meyer and Wolf. 
“ Taschenbuch,” &c. or Almanack of 
the Birds of Germany, 2 vols. 8vo. 
Franckfort, 1810. The first volume 
contains the terrestrial birds by 
Wolf; the second the water-birds by 
Meyer. This work is filled with ex- 
cellent observations. 
Mig. — Miger (Felix), a natu- 
ralist at Paris. 
“ Memoire sur les Larves des Insectes 
Coleopteres Aquatiques,” inserted in 
the fourteenth volume of the An- 
nales du Museum 
Mik. — Mikau (I. C.), a Bohe- 
mian naturalist. 
“ Monographia Bombyliorum Bohemise,” 
with plates, 8vo. Prague, 1796. 
Miller (J. S.), an English na- 
turalist. 
“ Natural History of the Crinoides,” 
and a “ Memoir on the Belemnites,” 
4to. Bristol, 1821. In the Transac- 
tions of the Geological Society of 
London, second series, vol. II. part I. 
Mitchell, an American natu- 
ralist and physician. 
1 chiefly quote his work on the “ Fishes 
of New York,” in the Trans, of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of 
New York. He has also published 
