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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 
other Memoirs in the Annals of the 
NewYork Lyceum, and in the Journ. 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia. 
Moehr. — Moehring (P. H.G.), 
a physician at Jever. 
“ Avium Genera,” 8vo. Aurich, 1752. 
Molin.— Molina (the Abbe J. 
L), an ecclesiastic of Chili, resident 
in Italy. 
“ Essai sur l’Histoire Naturelle du 
Chili,” in Latin, and translated into 
French by Gruvel, 1 vol. 8vo. Paris, 
1789. This work was written in 
Italy from memory, and contains 
many doubtful passages. 
Montag. — Montagu (George), 
an English naturalist. 
Author of descriptions of various species 
of Birds, Fishes, Mollusca and Crus- 
tacea, in the Transactions of the 
Linnaean and Wernerian Societies of 
London. 
Montegre a physician of Paris, 
who died in the colonies. 
I quote his “ Memoire sur les Yers de 
Terre,” published in the Memoires du 
Museum. 
Montf. — Montfort (Denis de), 
a singular man, who styled himself 
an ancient naturalist of the King of 
Holland ; he perished through want 
in the streets of Paris in 1820 or 
1821. I principally quote his 
“ Conchyliologie Systematique,” a sort 
of Genera Conchyliorum, where the 
genera are extremely numerous, and 
represented by wood cuts, executed 
by the author, in as exact a manner 
as can be done by that species of 
engraving. 
There are but two volumes 8vo. which 
contain the Univalves only. Paris, 
1808, 1810. 
He is also the author of the first four 
volumes of the “ Histoire Naturelle 
des Mollusques,” that form a sequel 
to Sonnini’s Buffon, Paris, 1802, in 
which he has inserted apocryphal 
figures. They merely contain the ge- 
neialia and the Cephalopoda. 
Moq. Tand. — Moquin-Tandon 
(A.), a physician of Montpellier, 
Professor at Marseilles. 
“ Monographic de la famille des Hiru- 
dinees,” 4to. Montpellier, 1826. 
Moreau de Jonnes, correspond- 
ing member of the Institute. 
Quoted as author of several Memoirs on 
the animals of the Antilles. 
Morren (C. F. A.), a naturalist 
of Belgium. 
“ De Lumbrici Terrestris Historia Na- 
tural! nec non Anatomia,” 4to. Brus- 
sels, 1829. 
Mouff. — Mouffet (Thomas), 
an English naturalist, died about 
1600. 
“ Insectorum sive Minimorum Anima- 
lium Theatrum,” 1 vol. folio, with 
five hundred wood cuts. London, 
1634. 
It was published by Theodore de May- 
erno, a Frenchman and physician to 
James I. It is the first special work 
on Insects. 
Stat. Mull. — Muller (Philip 
Louis Statius), Professor at Erlang, 
born in 1725, died 1776. 
Author of a bad translation, into Ger- 
man, of the Systema Naturae of Lin- 
naeus, from the Dutch translation of 
Houttuyn, 9 vols. 8vo. Nuremb. 
1773 — 1776, containing the animals 
only. 
Mull. — Muller (O. F.), a 
Dane, Counsellor of State, and one 
of the most laborious observers of 
the eighteenth century, born 1730, 
died 1784. I quote his 
“ Yon Wiirmern der Siissen und Sal- 
zigen Wassers,” 1 vol. 4to. or fresh 
and salt water worms. 
“ Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviati- 
lium Historia,” 2 vols. 4to. 
“ Zoologia Danica,” folio, with co- 
loured plates. The first three num- 
bers, Copenhagen, 1788, 1789, are 
from his pen ; the fourth from Abild- 
gaardt, Yahl, &c. 
“Zoologia Danica, Prodromus,” 1 vol. 
8vo. Haniae, 1776. 
“ Entomostraca seu Insecta Testacea,” 
1 vol. 4to. with plates. Lips, and 
Havniae, 1785. 
“ Hydrachnae,” 1 vol. 4to. with co- 
loured plates. Lipsiae, 1781. 
“ Animalcula Infusoria,” 1 vol. 4to. 
