From:
Antonio Scarpa
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
7 Nov 1788
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/9/15, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Thanks for the tracings from [Johan Christian] Fabricius' 1783 memoir on the hearing of insects; notes that Fabricus does not seem to have looked into the internal structure of the hearing organs of crayfish. Notes a dissertation by Mr Minasi titled "Dissertazione dei Timpanetti dell'udito scoperti nel Granchio Paguro" (1775) that may predate Fabricius' work. [Giovanni Antonio] Scopoli's successor at University of Pavia is Brusatti, previously Professor of Chemistry at the Theresian College in Vienna.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London