ncremento; also Prichard, Phys.
Hist, of Mankind, vol. i. p. 17., where the hypotheses of
different naturalists are enumerated.

[949] Necker, Phytozool. Philosoph. p. 21.; Brocchi, Conch.
Foss. Subap., tome i. p. 229.

[950] Amoen. Acad. vol. vi. p. 17. Section 12.

[951] Ibid. vol. vii. p. 409.

[952] Amoen. Acad., vol. vi. p. 17. Section 11, 12.

[953] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 178.

[954] Amoen. Acad., vol. vi. p. 26. Section 14.

[955] Kirby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 218.

[956] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 250.

[957] Wilcke, Amoen. Acad. c. ii.

[958] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 174.

[959] Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. vi.

[960] Lib. Ent. Know., Insect Trans., p. 203. See Haworth,
Lep.

[961] Reaumur, ii. 337.

[962] Lib. Ent. Know., Insect Trans., p. 212.

[963] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 183. Castle, Phil. Trans.,
xxx. 346.

[964] Travels in Africa, p. 257. Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p.
215.

[965] Journal of a Residence in Iceland, p. 276.

[966] Tour in Iceland, vol. i. p. 64, 2nd edit.

[967] Travels in Brazil, vol. i. p. 260.

[968] Ed. Phil. Journ., No. xxii p. 287. Oct. 1824.

[969] Ray. Syn. Quad., p. 214.

[970] Fleming, Ed. Phil. Journ., No. xxii. p. 295.

[971] Fleming, ibid., p. 292.

[972] Vol. iii. London, 1821.

[973] Land Birds, vol. i. p. 316. ed. 1821.

[974] Some have complained that inscriptions on tomb-stones
convey no general information, except that individuals were
born and died, accidents which must happen alike to all men.
But the death of a _species_ is so remarkable an event in
natural history that it deserves commemoration, and it is with
no small interest that we learn, from the archives of the
University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains
of the last specimen of the dodo, which had been permitted to
rot in the Ashmolean Museum, were cast away. The relics, we
are told, were "a musaeo subducta, annuente vice-cancellario
aliisque curatoribus, ad ea lustranda convocatis, die Januarii
8vo, A.D. 1755." Zool. Journ. No. 12. p. 559. 1828.

[975] Penny Cyclopaedia, "Dodo." 1837.

[976] Messrs. Strickland and Melville on "the Dodo and its
Kindred." London, 1848.

[977] Pers. Nar. vol. iv.

[978] Quarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 335.