AUTHOR: Académie des sciences (France) TITLE: Memoirs for a natural history of animals: containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris... / done into English by a Fellow of the R. S. [i.e. Alexander Pitfield] To which is added An account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, publish'd by the members of the same Academy: English'd by R. W. [i.e. Richard Waller] IMPRINT: London: printed for John Clarke, 1701 COLLATION: 31 cm. 2º: p2 a2 b2 (-b4) A4 (-A4) B-2I4 2K-2N2 2B-2F4 [7] p.l., 3-267 , [13], 40 p., [35] leaves of plates. NOTES: Added title page, engraved. Pt.[1] is a translation from Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelles des animaux by Claude Perrault. PROVENANCE: Boston Society of Natural History. REFERENCES: BM(NH), v. 4 p. 1515. KEYWORDS: 1. Zoology. 2. Earth -- Figure. I. Perrault, Claude (1613-1688) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. II. Picard, M. (Jean) (1620-1682) Mesure de la terre. III. Pitfield, Alexander (1659?-1728) IV. Waller, Richard (d. 1714 or 15) LOCATION: fQL41.A18 1701 OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library