438 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
and rudely figured ; as they were likewise most misera- 
bly in Cuba's Ortus Sanitatis, published in 1485, in 
which insects and Crustacea were described under the 
three different denominations of Animals, Birds, and 
Fishes; so that but little profit was at first derived from 
the writings of Aristotle, Invertebrate animals not being 
then even honoured with 
" A local habitation and a name." 
This unpromising and apparently hopeless state of the 
science proved, however, the dawn of its present meridian 
brightness. 
The first attempt at a separate and systematical ar- 
rangement of insects subsequent to the times of Aristotle, 
was made in the ponderous volumes of Ulysses Aldro- 
vandus, who, disregarding the Stagyrite, arranged in- 
sects according to the medium they inhabit, as you will 
see in the subjoined table : 
f Membra- ( £ avifi ™' 
fAnelytra J nacea <Nonl<a- 
fAlata < J •. < vlfica 
LEIytrota. l*annosa. 
f Pedata < 
f Terrestrial Uptera iSIS' 
.Apoda. 
I] *****V W " ( Multipeda. 
I fPedata \ Paucipeda. 
* Multipeda. 
LAquatica < 
{.Apoda. 
This artificial and meager system, which mixed insects 
with Annelida, was adopted by Charlton and other au- 
thors; and even in the eighteenth century had a patron 
of great eminence, who, endeavouring to improve upon 
