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frontispiece; Kja'rbolling, Jour. fete Ornithologie, 1853, Extraheft, p. 29, Naumannia, 1853, p. 327, Ornithol. danica, tab. lv., suppl. tab. 29) under the names of Mergus anatarius, Clangula angustirostris, and Anas (Clangula) mergoides, as though they were a distinct See also:

SPECIES

species; but the remarks of De Selys-Longchamps (See also:

Bull. Ac. Sc.-Bruxelles, 1845, pt. ii. p.

354, and 1856, pt. ii. p. 21) leave little See also:

ROOM

room for doubt as to their origin, which, when the cryptogamic See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit and common range of their putative parents, the former unknown to the author last-named, is considered, will seem to be still more likely. this remained in his See also:

FAMILY

family till 1726, when, after a See also:

GREAT

great See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire that destroyed most of the books in stock, it came to an end. In 1625 See also:

MERIAN, MATTHEW (1593–1650)

Merian became a burgher of See also:

FRANKFORT

Frankfort, then the great centre of the See also:

BOOK

book See also:

trade in See also:

Germany, and lived there till his See also:

DEATH

death on the 22nd of See also:

JUNE

June 1650. Among his many See also:

WORKS

works two deserve to be specially mentioned. The first is the See also:

long See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of works, each entitled Topographia, which contained descriptions of various countries, illustrated by See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper plates, largely done by Merian himself, while the accompanying See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text was due to See also:

Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), an See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian by See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth. The first See also:

VOLUME

volume was published in 1642 and described See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, with the See also:

GRISONS (Ger. Graubunden)

Grisons and the See also:

VALAIS (Ger. Wallis, Ital. Vallese)

Valais; it contains the first known view of the glaciers of See also:

GRINDELWALD

Grindelwald. " See also:

Austria " appeared in 1649, but the volume See also:

RELATING

relating to Upper See also:

Saxony and Bohemia (1650) was the last issued by Merian himself. " See also:

France " appeared in 1655–1656, while in 1688 the series (extending to 30 parts, in 18 vols.) came to an end with " See also:

Italy," the volume as to See also:

Rome having appeared in 168x. The other great enter-prise of Merian was the series entitled Theatrum Europaeum, which appeared in 21 parts between 1635 and 1738—it is a See also:

HISTORICAL

historical See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle of events in See also:

EUROPE

Europe from 1617 onwards. In 1625–163o Merian published a series of illustrations to the See also:

Bible, and in 1649 a See also:

Dance of Death. But he is best remembered by his views of towns, which have very considerable historical value.

His best See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, See also:

WENCESLAUS (1361-1419)

Wenceslaus See also:

HOLLAR, WENZEL

Hollar (1607-1677), of See also:

PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague, settled in See also:

LONDON

London (1635–1643, 1652–1677), and worthily carried on the Merian tradition. (W. A. B. C.) See See also:

LIFE

Life, by H. Eckardt (See also:

Basel, 1887).

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