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Europe. No better evidence of these facts can be 
adduced than the rapid increase of new works in 
this department towards the middle of the last cen- 
tury. Entomology, in the following year, was en- 
riched with the most inimitable delineations of insects 
which this or any age has produced; and which 
form the plates to that beautiful work by Sepp (in 
Dutch) on the insects of the Low Countries.* This 
publication came out in numbers, and perfect sets 
are now exceedingly rare: those portions we possess 
relate exclusively to the Lepidoptera, each species 
being delineated, in all its several transformations, 
from the egg to the perfect insect: the drawing of 
the subjects is chaste, elegant, and cannot be excelled 
for accuracy ; while the style of engraving is ad- 
mirably suited to express all the softness of the 
original drawings. These plates, in fact, have never 
been equalled, far less excelled, by any of the most 
celebrated in modern times. _ Sepp undertook, in 
like manner, to figure all the birds of his native 
country, but his talents were quite unsuited to this 
department; and his figures have all the stiffness 
and roughness of badly preserved dried specimens. 
The works of Sepp, who is the Van Huysum of our 
science, are more illustrative than scientific, while that 
of Scopoli, on the entomology of Carniola}, which 
soon followed, is purely descriptive: he does not, 
however, implicitly follow Linnzus in the names of 
* Sepp. Beschouwing der Wonderen Gods in de Minst- 
geachte Schepzelen of Nederlandsche Insecten. Amsterdam, 
1762, &e. 3 vols. 4to. 
+ J. A. Scopoli. Entomologia Carniolica, exhibens Insecta 
Carnioliz indigena. Vindobonz, 1763. 1 vol. 8vo. 
