Taxidermy; with the biography of zoologists, and notices of their works / by William Swainson.
- William Swainson
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Taxidermy; with the biography of zoologists, and notices of their works / by William Swainson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
374/410 (page 360)
![]iesides his writings on this subject, he translated Gmelin’s edition of Linnaeus into English. 1. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Is- lands. Lond. 1819. 12mo. pp. 2?2. pi. 28. The text is according to the Linniean classification, and is arranged alphabetically. The figures are merely rude outlines, scarcely recognisable. 2. The British Fauna, or Compendium of the Zoology of the British Islands, arranged according to the Linnsean System. Swansea. 12mo. The second volume, which was to contain the insects, &c., has never been published. The type is remarkably small. 3. Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum; or. The Shells of the British Islands systematically arranged. Exeter, 1822. 4to. pp. 279- pl» 20. The divisions are new; the genera, those of Lamarck; some new are proposed, and characters assigned to them, most of which are now generally adopted. The plates are very accurately designed and engraved by Curtis; but, in the majority of copies we have seen, they are rather too highly coloured. The second volume, intended to contain the univalves and barnacles, we have not seen. Dr. Turton is also the author of another work on the land and freshwater shells of Britain, which we have not seen. Vaillant, Francois le.—Ornithology. The life and fortune of this celebrated traveller were devoted to science. He was born in Surinam, of French parents; and, at a very early age, evinced the greatest devotion to ornithology ; a passion which clung to him ever after. Accustomed to investigate nature in the wild recesses of his native forests; he seems to have imbibed a strong prejudice against the methods and* systems then in use ; and which no doubt resulted from the errors, and the artificial modes, of arranging](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2202637x_0374.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
