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Show CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. In explaining the abbreviations employed to indicate the numerous writers necessarily referred to in this work, we have embraced the opportunity of giving the reader a general idea of their profession, the period of their birth and decease, and of the character of their writings. ABILD.-ABILDGAARDT (Peter-Christian), a Danish naturalist; Professor at Copenhagen, died in 1808. One of the continuers of the Zoologia Danica of Muller, and author of various Me· moirs published among those of the Society of Natura] History, and of The Royal Society of Sciences of Copenhagen, as well as those of the Society of NaturaJists of Berlin. AoAD. DEs So. I thus quote the" Memoirs de l'Academie des Sciences, of Paris, of which one quarto volume was annually published from 1700 to 1790. I have also occasionally quoted the "Memoirs des Savants Etrangers," eleven volumes, from 1750 to 1786. I have also frequently quoted the "Memoirs of the Academy of Berlin" from 1819, and the new ones of the Academia Natur;e Curiosorum of Bonn, from Vol. IX, at which epoch they assumed their new form. For those of the Academy of Petersburg see Peterob. or Petrop. AcosTA or rather MENDEz DA CosTA (Emmanuel), a Portuguese naturalist, resident in London. "Historla Naturalis Testaceorum Britanni~e," 1 vol. 4to. London, 1778. AnANsoN (Michael), born at Aix in 1727, and died in Paris 1806, Member of the Acad~mie des Sciences, and one of the first naturalists who attempted the classification of Shells according to their animals. "Histoire Naturelle des Coquillages du Senegal," 1775, 1 vol. 4to. AGASSIS, a German naturalist. Editor of the " Fishes of Spix," and author of Memoirs in the IIIia. |