'MO HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
thus having prepared the work for the press, intended 
to dedicate it to queen Elizabeth 3 . Fate, however, 
seemed still to frown upon the undertaking, for before 
he could commit his labours to the press he also died, 
and his book remained buried in dust and obscurity till 
it fell into the hands of Sir Theodore Mayerne, baron 
d'Aubone, one of the court physicians in the time of 
Charles I., who at length published it, prefixing a Dedi- 
cation to Sir William Paddy, baronet, M.D., in 1634; 
and it was so well received that an English translation 
appeared twenty-four years afterwards. The work thus 
repeatedly rescued from destruction was indisputably the 
most complete entomological treatise that had then ap- 
peared. And though the arrangement (in which there 
is scarcely any attempt at system) is extremely defective, 
the figures very rude, often incorrect, and sometimes 
altogether false, — yet as an introduction to the study 
of insects its value at that day must have been very 
considerable; and as a copious storehouse of ancient 
entomological lore, it has not even at present lost its 
utility. 
One of the most remarkable works of the era we arfe 
upon was published at Lignitz in the year 1603, by 
Caspar Schwenckfeeld, a physician of Hirschberg, under 
the title of Theriotrophium Silesia?. This was probably 
the first attempt at a Fauna that ever was made. In it 
animals are divided into quadrupeds, reptiles, birds, 
fishes, and insects. The Crustacea, Mollusca, and Zoo- 
phytes, are included under fishes. He says of the Spoti- 
gice that they are moved by animalcula which inhabit 
(hem b . Did he borrow this observation from Aristotle, 
* Thcalr. Insect, Epirf, Vcd. i. Tkenotroph, Silts. 455. 
