RISE AND PROGRESS OF ZOOLOGY. 4} 
conchology of D’Argenville, which appeared in 
1742*, although costly in its execution, has little 
claims to merit; the drawing of the figures, which 
constitutes its only value, renders it greatly inferior 
both to the volumes of Lister and of Rumphius. 
In 1758, conchology received another addition in 
the coloured plates of Regenfuss, published at 
Copenhagen: but the work was never completed, 
and the only volume that exists is so very rare, that 
we know but of two copies in this country.t A 
splendid addition was made to illustrated entomology 
in 1746, by the coloured figures of Reeselt{ ; and here 
also we may notice the valuable collection of figures 
by our countryman Edwards ; whose works, although 
terminated at a time when most writers arranged 
their materials according to the Linnzan method, 
were commenced in 1743, and belong to the illus- 
trative, more than to the scientific class, of zoological 
publications. Edwards was the friend of Sir Hans 
Sloane, and for many years filled the office of 
librarian to the College of Physicians. He has no 
pretensions to scientific talent, or to original research ; 
yet it is an extraordinary fact, that, destitute of such 
* D’Argenville. L’Histoire Naturelle éclaircie dans une de 
ses principales Parties, la Conchyleologie. Paris, 1742. An- 
other edition appeared in 1757; and a third, augmented by 
Favanne, in 2 vols. 4to, in 1780. 
+ Regenfuss. Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés. Co- 
penhagen, 1758. Folio. 
¢ A. J. Reesel. Der Monatlich, Herausgegebenen Insecten 
Blustigung; or, a Monthly Publication on the Amusements 
of Insects. Nurenberg, 1746—1761. 4 vols., small 4to. The 
fourth volume is a Supplement by Kleeman. 
