LEPIUOPTÉROLOCilE COMPARÉE 13 



and thc hardly Icss famous 



C) jl-:H()VA 



Quam maj,^nifira >unt Tua Opcra ! 

 Vir insipio-ns ncm cognoscit ca, 

 Stultus non aniiuadvertit ca, 



on tho titlc ])a^"c of thc ih'st c^dition 



The conteniporarics of Lmnous — it is i)leasant to reflccl lliat 

 knighthood was conferrcd on him b}' an English Knig — as well 

 as his predecessors, glonfied the Almighty as Creator of ail 

 things, but, so long as the style was observed, there was usually 

 an intcrniediary of ihc Blood Royal, or other ' rag of Ouality. " 

 But M. Obcrthiiv's dcdicadons are fcw and brief. It is anuisnig 

 to compare his methods of addrrss with those of the ancients. 

 Thomas Moufet's " Insectorum Sue Mmimorum Animalium 

 Theatrum " (1634) opens with an elaborate prefatory cpistle 

 " Generoso Viro, Equiti aurato, Archiato Regio, D. Gulielmo 

 Paddy Theodorus de Mayerne. " Nearly a century later, 

 Eleazer Albin, paintcr, dedicates his " Natural History of 

 English Insects, " to H. R. H. the Princess of Wales, otherwise 

 Caroline of Anspach : — 



Madam, my profound Vénération for Your Royal Highnesse's Pcrson 

 had prevented the presumption, but your readiness in condesccnding to 

 Patronize whatsoever may tend to the Honour of God ... or the Good 

 of AFankind encouraged me to offcr tlie following ^^'ork at Vour Royal 

 Feet. 



But, ihcnccforward, few except nien of fcjrlune [jublished at 

 their own expense, though Jakob Huebner, perhaps the greatest 

 dchneator and paniter of Lepidoptera of his time, when he drcw 

 upon nature for his models, only musters a inodest half hundred 

 names, ail Germanie, Swiss, or Savo}-ard, m the first text volume 

 ,1780) of his monumental works. Crowns and coronete, lords 

 and ladies no longer monopolise, the subscription list. The 

 " Beitràge zur Geschichte der S chmetter litige " were published 



