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Principal Contemporaries of Linne. 



Clerck (Carl Alexander). Died in 1765. Was a Swedish painter and a pupil 

 of Linne*. He was the author of several important papers on insects, 

 and an illustrated work on spiders, using the binomial system of 

 nomenclature (1757) one year earlier than Linnd's loth edition. 



Bartram (JohnX 1701-1778. " The Quaker naturalist of Philadelphia ; " 

 was chiefly a botanist, but wrote short articles on wasps, dragon-flies, 

 the cicada, etc., in Philos. Trans. Phila. 1745-1763. 



Roesel von R ose nkof( August Johann). 1705-1759. A miniature painter 

 of Nuremburg, and a very ingenious observer and delineator of natural- 

 history subjects, chiefly insects. Was author of'Der monatl/ch heraus- 

 gegebenen Insecten-Belustigung" ("Recreations with Insects, pub 

 lished monthly"), 4 vols., 1746-1761, 356 colored plates. 



Wilkes (Benjamin). Works 1741-1773. Author of 120 colored copper 

 plates of English moths and butterflies, representing their changes 

 into caterpillars, chrysalid and fly states, and plants, flowers, and 

 fruits whereon they feed, with natural history and index of insects and 

 plants adapted to the Linnean system. Two editions, London. 



Linne (Charles von). 1707-1778. Professor of Natural History at Upsala. 

 Principal works: " Systema Natures" 1735 (loth edition, adopting bi 

 nomial system, 1758); "-Fauna Suecica" 1746. 



Lyonet (Pierre). 1706 or 7-1789. Interpreting Secretary to the United 

 Provinces (Holland). " Traite anatomiqtie de la Chenille qui Ronge le 

 bois de saule, etc." 1760, La Hague. Same work somewhat extended, 

 616 pp., 18 plates, 1762. 



Sepp (Christian). A copperplate engraver of Amsterdam (Holland). 

 Real name probably Smith or Schmidt. Published Nederlandische 

 Insecten, etc., 1762 on; continued by his son John Christian Sepp 

 (1739-1811). The plates illustrating the work by the elder Sepp have 

 never been excelled in engraving and coloring. 



Abbott (John). Work published in part by Smith (1759-1828) in 1797. 



Kalm (Pehr). 1713-1797. A pupil of Linne; was sent to America by the 

 Swedish government and traveled extensively in the colonies. 

 "Travels in N. A." (i753~'6i), Stockholm, and other papers in which 

 are many references to the common insects of this country. 



Schaejfer (Jacob Christian). 1718-1790 A doctor of theology and clergy 

 man of Regensburg. Principal works: ^ Element ia Entomologica" 

 1766, 135 colored plates; and "Icones Insectorum circa Raftzbonam 

 indigenorum" 1778, 149 colored plates. 



DeGeer (Carl). 1720-1778. A baron and marshal of the court of the 

 Queen of Sweden and member of the Academy of Stockholm. Gave 

 much of his fortune to furthering science Wrote "Mtmoirs pour 

 servir a Vhistoire des Insectes" 7 vols., 338 plates. 



