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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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numerous other works, chiefly on medicine, and he also 
contributed several papers on vegetable physiology to the 
Philosophical Transactions . His name is commemorated 
in botany, S. F. Gray having in his Natural Arrangement of 
British Plants ( 1821 ) given the name of Merrettia to a group 
of unicellular Algse. 
1666. Pinax | Reram Naturalium | Britannicarum, | Continens | Vege- 
tabilia, Animalia | et | Fossilia, | In hac insula repperta in- | 
choatus. | Auctore | Christophoro Merrett | Medicinse Doctore 
utriusque Societatis Regiae | Socio primoque Mussei Harveani 
Custode. | [Quotation from Hippocrates] Londini | Impensis 
Cave Pulleyn ad Insigne Rosae [ in Coemeterio Divi Pauli, Typis 
F. & | T. Warren, Anno 1666. 
Collation— 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 30, un. + pp. 221 + List of 
Authorities. 
Birds treated of pp. 170-84. 
Note. — This, the first printed list of British birds, mentions 
about 170 species. The above, which is the first edition, is rare. 
Idem. Another issue, 1667, entitled : 
Pinax | Rerum Naturalium | Britannicarum, | Continens | Vege- 
tabilia, Animalia, | et | Fossilia, | In hac Insula reperta inchoatus. 
| Authore | Ohristophoro Merrett, | Medicinae Doctore utriusque 
Societatis | Regiae Socio primoque Musaei Har- | veani Custode 
| [Quotation from Hippocrates] | Londini, | Typis T. Roycroft, 
Impensis Cave Pulleyn. | mdclxvii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 32 un. + pp. 223 + p. 1, List of 
Authorities. 
Idem. 2nd edit., 1667, entitled : 
Pinax | Rerum Naturalium | Britannicarum, | Continens | 
Vegetabilia, Animalia, | et | Fossilia, | In hac Insula reperta 
inchoatus. | Editio Secunda. | Authore | Christophoro Merrett, 
| Medicinae Doctore utriusque Societatis Regiae Socio primoque 
Musaei Har- | veani Custode. | [Quotation from Hippocrates] 
Londini, | Typis T. Roycroft, Impensis Cave Pulleyn, Prostat 
apud | Sam. Thomson in vico vulgo dicto Ducklane. 1667. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 32 un. + pp. 223 + p. 1, List of 
Authorities. 
Note . — Engelmann ascribes an edition to 1704 ; not seen, cf. 
Coues, p. 363. 
From the above it will be noticed that there were two editions 
or issues in 1667, one practically the same as the original edition, 
the other entitled Editio Secunda. Note that the date of the 
original edition is in Arabic numerals. 
