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The edition which I have used is: Geoponicorum, sive de 
re rustica, libri XX, Cassiano Basso Scholastico collectore, an- 
tea Constantino Porphyrogeneto a quibusdam adscripti, graece 
et latine post Petri Needhami curas ad MSS. fidem denuo recensi 
et illustrati ab Jo. Nrconao Nronas, Lipsiae 1781. 
There is a work of W. Grmoun, Untersuchungen etc. der 
Geoponica, Berlin 1883, which may be useful to students in 
using this antique compilation, 
Aldrovandi, De animalibus insectis, Bologna 1602, in fol. 
(the original ed.). The chapter on the Bugonia is on p. 58—60. 
Ulysses Aldrovandi (1527—1605), Professor in Bologna, 
spent his life in collecting materials for his immense work on 
all branches of Natural History, consisting of 13 volumes, the 
publication of which lasted from 1599 to 1668. Only four vo- 
lumes were published during his life-time; the rest was issued 
at the expense of the Senate of Bologna. This work, however, 
for the most part, is merely a crude compilation. 
Samuel Bochart, Hierozoicon; sive opus bipartitum de 
animalibus Sacrae Scripturae. London 16638. 2 vol. in fol. 
This stupendous work of erudition was my principal source 
for references on the Bugonia. The Chapter 10, p. 502—505 in 
Vol. II, Book IV, contains a collection of such passages, which 
most of the later authors have borrowed from. 
Bochart (1599—1667) was a protestant pastor in Caen, 
France, and at the same time, an eminent orientalist versed 
in Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic, Arabic, Ethiopian ete. 
Francesco Redi, Esperienze intorno alla generazione deg) 
insetti, Florence, 1668. 
F. Redi, born in Arezzo 1626, died in Pisa, 1697. He was 
the physician of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and at the same 
time a naturalist, a poet, and a literary personage in general. 
His letters are charming. I possess a Neapolitan edition of 
his complete works in seven volumes, dated 1778, and shall 
quote from it. 
