Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 v. : 3 fold. plates ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Murray, 1784.

Contents:

Appendices

v.1. On the digestion of the stomach after death, by John Hunter. Experiments concerning digestion ; translated from the inaugural dissertation of Dr. Stevens. Experiments on digestion, by Mr. Gosse.

v. II. Translation of Observation de deux animaux, dont le male accouche la femelle, by Mr. Demour. Discoveries on the sex of bees...by Mr. John Debraw. Part of a letter from the Abbé Spallanzani to the marquis Lucchesini. Observation [on fecundation] by M. Ferris.

Notes:

"Two letters from Mr. Bonnet of Geneva, respecting the forgoing dissertations": v. 2, p. 201-248.

OCLC:

8666235