The natural history of animals
Subtitle: containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris ...
By: done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society ; to which is added An account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the members of the same academy; English'd by R.W. SRS.
Publisher: Printed for R. Smith ...
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Zoology -- Dictionaries.; Animals -- Dictionaries.
Other titles: Memoires for a natural history of animals; The measure of the earth.
Notes: Original French title: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux.

Attributed to Claude Perrault--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

"With an Alphabetical Table of the names of the several Animals mention'd in this Volume.  And likewise an Alphabetical Index to make the Work Compleat."

"Publish'd by an Order in Council of the Royal Society."

"The measure of the earth" is separately paged.

Errata--p. [2] (third set).

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1985.

[15], 267 [13], 40 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.