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often mentions insects. He has, however, lew original 
observations. One was, that scorpions are viviparous a . 
From him we learn incidentally that artificial flies were 
sometimes used by Grecian anglers 5 . 
2. The Era of the Revival of the Science. From the 
time of Pliny and iElian 1400 years rolled away, in 
which scarcely any thing was done or attempted for En- 
tomology or Natural History in general. During that 
long night the glimmer of only one faint luminary ap- 
peared to make a short and feeble twilight. In the 
middle of the thirteenth century Albertus Magnus (so 
called from his family name of Groot, and justly, if in- 
credible labour could entitle a man to the appellation), 
devoted one out of twenty-one folio volumes to Natural 
History. In this work he professes not so much to give 
his own opinions, as those of the Peripatetic philoso- 
phers . He occasionally, however, relates the result of 
observations made by himself, which prove him to have 
been no inattentive student of nature. He mentions a 
voyage that he made for the purpose of collecting ma- 
rine animals, and that he found of them ten different 
tribes or genera, and several species of each. Amongst 
these he particularizes the Cephalopoda, the Crustacea, 
the testaceous Mollusca, and some of the Radiata and 
Acrita, &c. d He gives a very correct account of the 
pitfalls of Myrmelcon. Insects he distinguishes, exclu- 
ding the Crustacea, by the denomination of Anulosa (An- 
mdosa), which he appears to employ as a known term c . 
He also calls them 'worms, describing butterflies as flying 
a De Natur. Animal. I. vi. c. 20. b Ibid. 1. xv. c. 1. 
<• Opera vi. G83. A Ibid. 153—. c Ibid. 154, 233, 2G5, &c. 
