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excellent author, are as wonderful as the work itself; 
and together, to use Bonnet's words, form a demonstration 
of the existence of God. It is infinitely to be regretted 
that the author of this incomparable monument of sci- 
entific ardour and patient industry should have died be- 
fore the full completion of his anatomical description of 
the pupa and imago of the same insect ; of which he had 
prepared a considerable portion of the manuscript, and 
engraved upwards of twenty of the plates a . 
Numerous other writers in various departments of the 
science appeared during this era ; but it would be useless 
to enter into a particular detail of their works and merits. 
I cannot however omit noticing, on account of his inimi- 
tably accurate and chastely coloured representations of 
Lepidoptera, Sepp's beautiful Nederlandsc/ie Insecten, in 
which the whole history of these animals, from the egg 
to the fly, is described and portrayed. In our own 
country this era was distinguished by no entomological 
work of any great eminence. Albin, Wilks, and Harris 
produced the principal. Gould, however, without hav- 
ing any thing of system, gave an admirable account of 
English ants, which I formerly noticed b . 
One of our first poets, the celebrated Gray, was also 
much devoted to Entomology. From his interleaved 
copy of the Systema Natural, that venerable and able na- 
turalist, Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart, copied the following 
characters of the genera of insects of Linne, drawn up 
in Latin Hexameters, which he kindly communicated to 
me. 
* We have been informed that these valuable remains are at length 
likely to be rescued from oblivion, and given to the public. 
b Vol. II. p. 48, note \ 
