Part 20

Sachs, J. History of Botany, 1530-60. English translation. Clarendon Press, 1889.

An outline of the History of Palæontology is prefixed to Zittel's Handbuch der Palæontologie, Bd. 1. (1876-80). English translation, 1900-2.

The ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica often contains useful references. See for example the articles Biology, Embryology, Medicine, Parasitism, and Zoology.

Biographical dictionaries are of course indispensable. The Dictionary of National Biography, the Biographie Universelle, the Nouvelle Biographie Universelle, the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, and the Biographie Nationale de Belgique will be frequently consulted.

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Among the old authors who can be read for pleasure as well as for profit the present writer would include:—

Baker, H. The Microscope Made Easy. Second ed., 1743.—Employment for the Microscope. 1753.

Belon, P. Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses mémorables trouvées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie, et autres pays estranges. 1553.

—— Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux. 1555.

Buffon, Comte de. Histoire Naturelle. Forty-four vols., of which thirty-six appeared during Buffon's lifetime. 1749-1804. Selected passages only.

Cuvier, G. Ossemens Fossiles. 1812. Fourth ed. in ten vols., besides two of plates, 1834-36. Selected passages only.

Hooke, R. Micrographia. 1665.

Huber, F. Nouvelles observations sur les Abeilles. 1792. Second ed., two vols., 1814.

—— J. P. Recherches sur les mœurs des Fourmis indigènes. 1810.

Le Roy, G. Lettres sur les Animaux. 1781. Reprinted, 1862.

Linnæus, C., and his Pupils. Amœnitates Academicæ. Seven vols., 1749-69.

Contain interesting discussions here and there among much that is now valueless.

—— Lachesis Lapponica; or, A Tour in Lapland. Translated by Sir J. E. Smith from the original diary. Two vols., 1811.

Ray, J. Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium. 1660.

Réaumur, R. A. F. de. Histoire des Insectes. Six vols. 1734-42.

Redi, F. Experiments on the Generation of Insects. Translated from the Italian edition of 1688 by Mab Bigelow. Chicago, 1909.

Roesel von Rosenhof, A. J. Insecten-belustigungen. 1746-61.

Turner, W. On Birds. 1544. Translated by A. H. Evans, 1903.

INDEX

AFFINITY, 17, 51

Agassiz, 122

Albrecht, 61

Aldrovandi, 13