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Show CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 486 He has also published tbe last number of the work of the late Palisot de Bcauvois on the Insects collected by him in Africa and America; as well as extracts from various works on Insects, in the" Bulletin Universe}" of Baron Ferussac. SIIAW (Thomas), a theologian of Oxford, who travelled in· Africa and the Levant. His work, published in English at Oxford, in folio, 1738, has been translated into French under the title of "Voyage dans plusieurs parties de Ia Barbaric et du Lc· vant," 2 vols 4to. La Hayc, 1743. Su. or SHAw.-SitAW (George), Adjunct Librarian of the British Museum, a laborious compiler and describer, died in 1815. "The Naturalist's Miscellany," 8vo. London,1789, et seq.; n numerous collec· tion of coloured plates, mostly copies, with some that are original. "General Zoology," London, 1800, et seq., several volumes 8vo, with plates, most of them copies. "Zoology of New Holland," a few numbers, 8vo. London, 1794, et seq. The work remains unfiuished. Sr.oANE (Hans), a former President of the Royal Society, born in 1660, died in 1753. "Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Barbadoes, Nevis, St Christopher and Ja· maica," with 274 indifferent or bad plates, 2 vols folio. London, 1707, 1727. SMEATH.-SMEATHMAN (Henry). His History of the Termites, published in the seventy-first volume of the Philo· sophical Transactions, has been translated into French by Dr Uigaud of Montpel· lier, and inserted in the Fa·ench translation of Sparrman's Voyage. SMITH (Hamilton), an officer in the English service and a learned naturalist. Author of a great portion of the additions to the English translation of the Regne Animal, and particularly of the Synopsis Mammalium which terminates the third volume. Soo. NAT. BEnL., or BERL· MEM., or NA'f'· of BERL., or BERL· NAT· 1'he Memoirs of this Society have appeared successively under four different titles, in German. 1. "Bescboofligungen" (Occupations), 4 vols 8vo, 1775-1779. 2. "Schriften" (Writings), 11 vols Svo, 1780-1794, the five last of which are also styled" Beobachtungen und Entdeckungen" (Observations and Discoveries). 3." Neue Schriften" (New Writings), 4to, 1795-17 • 4. "Magazin," &c. (The Magazine of New Discoveries in Natural History), quarterly from 1807. SoLn.-SoLDANI (Ambrosio), Genr.ral of the Camaldolites, subse· quently Professsor at Siena, author of various works on Microscopic ... festacea, both fossil and recent. CATALOGUE 0 .1-' AUTHORS. 487 " Saggio Oritlwgrafico Ovvero 0 I vol. 4to. Siena, 1780, sservationi sopra le Terre Nautilitiche," &c., . "Testnce ograp h.H \ ac Zoophytogra hi p Saena, 1789-1798• p a arva et Microscopica, " 3 v 0 I9 1~: 0,1. 0. ~ONNER.-SoNNERAT, born at L o . . fatigable collectot·. Y ns, died m Paris, 1814, an inde- " Voyage a' 1a N ouvelle-Guinee " w'th Paris, 1776. His first voyage , I one hundred and twenty plate• 4to ." Voyag e aux 1n des Orienta' les et a Ia Ch' , ' · Wlth one hundred and forty plates. Paris I;;;• ~~m 1774 to 1'781, 2 vola 4to • • IS second voyage. SoNNINI DE MANONOOURT (C S) . • in Wallachia in 18 14 1 · ·.' engmeer, born at Lorraine, died • quote h1s " Voyage dans Ia Haute et Basse E , . Bvo. Paris, 1799. gypte, Wlth an atlas of forty plates, 3 vols And sometimes his edition of Buffon, 8vo. Paris, Dufart, 1798. SowEnn.-SowERDY (James) and S . I . h . ' OWERBY (G B ) g 1s naturahsta and artists. · • ' his son, En- "The Genera of Recent and Fo '1 Sh " . "Fossil Conchology." SSI ells, thirty numbers, Svo. Various papers in the Zoological J ourna1. SPALL.-SPALLANZANI (Lazzaro) h 1 at Reggio, then at Modena a d fl t 1~ ce ebrat~d observer, Professor in 1799. Of h' ' n na Y at Pavia, born in 1729, died quote the IS numerous works we have only had occasion to " Opuscoli di Fisica Animale e Vegetabile " 1776 They have been translated into French b; Sennebier, 3 vols Svo Geneva, 1787. SPARM.-SPARMANN (Andrew) born in 1 . He visited the Cape of G d H ' 748 ' a puptl of Linnreus. 00 ope and China d a Professor at Upsal. 'an was subsequently Vov. 17"8V7.o yage au Cap de Bonne. E sp,e rance, " a French tl"anslation, 3 vola Svo. Paris~ Mus. CARLS. "~useum Carlsonianum," four small folio numb contams figures of Birds, of which I . . . ers. Stock,, 1786, et seq. It cer am vanelles are converted •'nto spec1. es. SPE"NAOME. -SPENOE (William)' an Engh. sh naturalist onograph of the Choleval" th t . • Transactions of the Linnean Society. a are found ln England, published in the DeSnPmE NGkL .b-S PENGLER (L • ), Cu rator of the cabinet of the Kt'ng of ar ' orn in 1720. Quoted for certain Memoirs in the Natu ra~"o rso h er, &.c. |
