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have been the work of Hoefnagel's son, Jacob (1575 ), then 



;i vouth of seventeen. One of them, the draught of a magnified 

 domestic fly, we here reproduce (fig. 33). 



Another early naturalist who seems to have made use of the 



Ltcktn pdcatuj J^Uny prrrmu - Lichen Duxruu rtftmyiecunJuj 



Lichen cakcAto ctulc tmhSuutut}* UcKcn tctulu vratfiSfKvcotaxvs 4 



Fig. 35. — Enlarged figures of " lichens," from a work published 

 bv Fabio Colonna in 1606. 



magnifying glass is Fabio Colonna, an excellent botanist, and one 

 of the original members of the Academy of the Lynx at Rome. 

 Colonna gives in his works numerous enlarged details of plants, 

 and in the figure of the " lichens," here reproduced to the original 



