Ray, John

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1693Synopsis methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis. Vulgarium notas characteristicas, rariorum descriptiones integras exhibens: cum historiis & observationibus anatomicis perquam curiosis. Praemittuntur nonnulla de animalium in genere, sensu, generatione, divisione &c.;
London, S. Smith & B. Walford: [xiv] + 336 + [8]. Frontisp.
—Also a 1696 ed.? Sirs., 193-194. This is presumably the work to which Steller (1899: 189) alluded in his description of Hydrodamalis; it is known that Steller had a copy of this book with him on his voyage with Bering in 1741-42 (see Steller, 1925: 2).