160 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
ing society consists at this time of above 600 members, 
of whom more than 500 are Fellows; — a gratifying proof 
how widely Natural History is cultivated in the British 
Empire 3 . 
5. Era of Fabricius, or of the Maxillary System. — We 
are now arrived, if its consequences be considered, at 
one of the most important epochs of the science. Fa- 
bricius, a pupil of Linne, who highly estimated his en- 
tomological acquirements 13 , thinking that the system of 
his master was not built upon a foundation sufficiently 
fixed and restricted , conceived the idea of doing for 
Entomology what the latter had done for Botany. As 
the learned and illustrious Swede had assumed the Fruc- 
tification for the basis of his system in that science, so 
the emulous and highly-gifted Dane, observing how 
happily those organs were employed as characters in 
extricating the genera of Vertebrate animals, assumed 
the instruments of manducation, far more numerous and 
various in insects, for the basis of a new system of En- 
a Since the former edition of these volumes was published, an- 
other and most important association has been formed, having for 
its object the Animal Kingdom solely; which not only has a museum 
to receive specimens of dead animals (by the liberal donation of its 
present learned secretary, of his own rich collection, and from other 
sources, already most interesting both as a spectacle and to the 
student), but also a Vivarium, in which a considerable and curious 
assemblage of living animals may be seen. This association, which 
is named The Zoological Society, is principally indebted for its 
formation to the efforts of a great, amiable, and lamented character, 
the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, whose merits were equally 
conspicuous both as a Politician and a Naturalist, and who was its 
first President. 
b Linne is recorded to have said, " Si Dominus Fabricius venit cum 
aliquo Insccto, et Dominus Zoega cum aliquo Musco, tunc ego pile- 
um detraho et dico: Eslote doctorcs mei." Stiver's Life of Lin- 
nans. 186. ' Fab. Philos. Enlomolog. Praef. 
