The best edition of his History of Animals ([Greek: Peri Zoon Historia]), is that of Schneider, in 4 vols 8vo, which issued from the press at Leipsic in 1811. Many editions of his works have been published; but the most complete is said to be Sylburge's, printed at Frankfort, containing,--Organon, 1585; Rhetorica et Poetica, 1584; Ethica ad Nicomachum, 1584; Ethica Magna, &c. 1584; Politica et Oeconomica, 1587; Animalium Historia, 1587; De Animalium Partibus, &c. 1585; Physicae Auscultationis, lib. viii. et Alia Opera, 1596; De Coelo, lib. iv.; De Generatione et Conceptione; De Meteoris, lib. iv.; De Mundo; De Anima; Parva Naturalia; Varia Opuscula, 1587; Alexandri et Cassii Problemata, 1585; Aristotelis et Theophrasti Metaphysica, 1585. FOOTNOTES: [C] Biogriphie Universelle. [D] See Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. X. Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt, p. 91. PLINY THE ELDER. _Account of his Life and Works._ Introductory Remarks--Notice respecting Pliny by Suetonius--Account of his Habits, as given by his Nephew, Pliny the Younger--Various Particulars of his Life--His Death occasioned by an Eruption of Vesuvius--Buffon's Opinion of the Writings of Pliny--Judgment of Cuvier on the same Subject--Brief Account of the Historia Naturalis, including Extracts respecting the Wolf, the Lion, and other Animals--Cleopatra's Pearls--History of a Raven--Domestic Fowls--General Remarks. Between the death of Aristotle and the birth of the celebrated naturalist whose life and writings we now proceed to delineate, there elapsed nearly three centuries and a half. It was in the reign of Tiberius in the 774th year of Rome and the 20th of the Christian era, that Pliny was born. Some assert that he was a native of Verona; others maintain that Comum was his birthplace; while Hardouin labours to prove that the honour belongs to Rome. Of his history little, except the circumstances of his death, is known that could afford any interest to those who look into biographies for marvellous adventures, although it would appear that he had travelled extensively, having visited Germany, Spain, the coast of Africa, and perhaps Britain, Egypt, and Judea. There are only two brief notices respecting him to be found among the ancient writers, besides those contained in the works of his nephew, Pliny the Younger, and the incidental remarks that occur in his own books on natural history. From these, together with a few casual observations by other authors, have been elaborated all the lives of this illustrious naturalist that are to be found in our dictionaries and cyclopaedias. The first authentic account is contained in the book of Suetonius, De Viris Illustribus, and is to the following effect:--