HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 4-59 
Apteka. 
Aptera se pedibus pennarum ncsciajactant. 
Exit trcs setas cauda extendente Lepisma. 
Saltatrix est cauda Podnrce inflexa bifurca. 
Armantur Termis maxillis ora duabus 
Fert telum quod ab ore Pediculus edat acutum. 
Pulicis inflexum rostrum est, telumque recondit. 
Octo Acarus pedibus duplicique instructus ocello est. 
Luraina bis bina octipcdata Phalangia gestant. 
Octo oculis totidem pedibusque se Aranea jactat. 
His etiam adjungit chelatos Scorpio palpos. 
Dena pedum natura dedit fulcimina Cancro. 
Unoculo bissena (duosque ambobus ocellos) 
Quorum his chelatos gerit, ille gemellos. 
Ovalis pedibus bis septem incedit Oniscus 
Inuumeris pedibus Scolopcndra angusta movetur. 
Secernit reliquis structura cylindrica Iidum. 
During this era, and by the influence of Linne, in the 
year 1739 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm 
was established, which did for Natural History in Swe- 
den what our own Royal Society had done for it in Eng- 
land. Other societies, with a similar object, were form- 
ed in different parts of Europe, and were attended by 
similar good effects. At Paris, at Berlin, at St. Peters- 
burg, at Moscow, at Turin, at Lisbon, &c, the lovers 
of Nature, at that time and subsequently, have asso- 
ciated for this purpose ; and I may mention here, that I 
may not revert to the subject, the great Natural History 
association of our own country, The Linnean Society, 
named after the illustrious Swede, which was first insti- 
tuted in 1788, and incorporated by royal charter in 
1802. In the Transactions of this learned body, the 
Zoologist in general, and particularly the Entomologist, 
will find much useful information and many interesting 
observations connected with his science. This flourish- 
