46 STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
admirable and erudite chronology of all the writers 
upon ichthyology, from the most remote records, up 
to the time of Willughby and Ray. It is singular 
that no specific names appear in this volume, although 
edited by Linneus: and, while ample descriptions 
are given of such as were new species, little is stated 
in regard to others, beyond innumerable references 
to ancient writers. Artedi fell into the prevalent 
notion of considering whales, and all the cetaceous 
quadrupeds, as true fish: but with this exception he 
so far surpassed all his predecessors in clearness of 
arrangement, and in the extent of his materials, that 
he deserves to be considered the father of systematic 
ichthyology. Artedi was followed in this depart- 
ment by Gronovius, whose name we have excluded 
from this school, rather on account of his strange 
rejection of the Linnzan nomenclature, than from a 
departure from that mode of arrangement which ori- 
ginated with the great Swede. Sulzer was the first 
who adopted the Linnean entomology, for in 1761 
he published a work with coloured plates, expressly 
to illustrate this system of insects*; and this was 
followed, fifteen years after, by others, having the 
same object. 
(20.) Entomology now began to be pursued with 
much avidity on the Continent, but more espe- 
cially in Germany ; where, to this day, it has con- 
tinued to flourish more than in any other part of 

* J. H. Sulzer. (1.) Die Keunzeichen der Insecten, &c. ; or, 
The Characters of Insects, according to Linné. Zurich, 1761. 
1 vol. 4to. (2.) Abgekiirzte geschichte der Insecten, &c. ; or, 
The abridged History of Insects, according to Linné. Win- 
terthur, 1776. 2 vols. 4to. 
