LISTER, MARTIN (christened Radclive, Buckinghamshire, England, 11 April 1639; d. Epsom, England, 2 February 1712), zoology, geology.

    should be looked upon as a separate work. See G. L. Wilkins, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 3, no. 4 (1957), 196-205. A 3rd ed., edited by G. Huddesford, was published at Oxford in 1770; and a 4th ed., L. W. Dillwyn, ed., at Oxford in 1823, with a correlation of Lister's arrangement with the Linnaean system. This last ed. bears the words editio tertia.

Exercitatio anatomica in qua de cochleis maxime terrestribus et limacibus agitur (London, 1694).

Exercitatio anatomica altera de buccinis fluviatilibus et marinis (London, 1695) was issued bound with Exercitatio medicinalis de variolis. Some copies of pt. I were issued separately as Dissertatio anatomica altera ... (London, 1695), and pt. II was issued as Disquisitio medicinalis de variolis (London, 1696).

Conchyliorum bivalvium utriusque aquae exercitatio anatomica tertia huic accedit dissertatio medicinalis de calculo humano (London, 1696), with the two Exercitatio anatomica, was intended as an anatomical supplement to the Historia conchyliorum.

Sex exercitationes medicinales de quibusdam morbis chronicis ... (London, 1694; a rev. and enl. ed. published as Octo exercitationes medicinales, 1697).

A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 (London, 1699) had 2 further eds. in the same year. Repr. in Pinkerton's General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels ... (London, 1809); and there is a rev. ed. by George Henning, An Account of Paris at the Close of the Seventeenth Century ... (London, 1823). Henning's ed. was trans. into French as Voyage de Lister à Paris ... (Paris, 1873), and there is a facs. repr. of the 3rd ed. with notes by R. P. Stearns (Urbana, Ill., 1967).

Other works are S. sanctorii de statica medicina ... cum commentario (London, 1701; new ed., 1728); Commentariolus in Hippocratem (London, 1702), repub. as part of Hippocratis aphorismi cum commentariolo (London, 1703); De opsoniis et condimentis sive arte coquininaria (London, 1705; 2nd ed., 1709), Lister's ed. of Apicius Caelius' work; and Dissertatio de humoribus in qua veterum ac recentiorum medicorum ac philosophorum opiniones et sententiae examinantur (London, 1709; new ed., Amsterdam, 1711)--“As full and compleat a system of the animal oeconomie ... as I could contrive.”

Lister's De scarabaeis Britannicus was printed as part of John Ray's publication of Francis Willughby's Historia insectorum (London, 1710).

Lister was a frequent contributor to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, submitting papers on insects, spiders, parasites, mollusks, birds, plants, physiology (particularly on the lymphatics), medicine, geology, meteorology and archaeology. There are in all 51 papers by Lister, from vol. 4 (1669) to vol. 22 (1701). In addition, 31 letters sent to Lister were passed on by him for publication in the Transactions in the same period.

The Lister MSS at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, form a set of 40 vols. of mixed letters and papers. The letters, although from a large number of correspondents, are incomplete--containing, for example, not a single letter from John Ray. In general, they are of slight scientific interest. The other papers include drafts of parts of his published works; sketches for unfinished geological works; papers on fossils, geology, and barnacles; diaries and account books; and so on. Letters to or from Lister can be found in MSS Ashmole 1816, 1829, and 1830 (particularly concerning Lhwyd) and in MSS Smith 51 and 52 (Thomas Smith, the Cotton librarian, was arranging Lister's papers but died with the work incomplete). There are a few letters in the British Museum, MSS Sloane and Stowe. The correspondence between Lister and Ray has been published in E. R. Lankester, ed., The Correspondence of John Ray (London, 1848); and R. T. Gunther, ed., The Further Correspondence of John Ray (London, 1928). Letters to and from Robert Plot and Edward Lhwyd have been published by Gunther in Early Science in Oxford, vols. XII and XIV (Oxford, 1939 and 1945).

II. SECONDARY LITERATURE.

There is no full-length study of Lister's life or works. Of several articles in English local journals, the only one which can be recommended is Davies, in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 2 (1873), 297-320. The eds. of A Journey to Paris by Henning and Stearns (see above) both contain a biographical introduction. The author of this article has a thesis on Lister in progress at the University of Leeds.

JEFFREY CARR