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to have presided over systematic entomology for 
nearly thirty-two years; that is, from 1775 to the 
beginning of the present century: he lived, how- 
ever, to see the rapid declension of his system, be- 
fore the rising star of the celebrated Latreille. 
(24.) Those who still adhered to the entomolo- 
gical arrangement of Linnezus, were Thunberg, one 
of his most eminent disciples, who travelled in China, 
Japan, and Southern Africa, and ultimately filled 
the botanical chair of Upsal; Muller*, who wrote 
a valuable Fauna of the animals of Denmark and 
Norway; Forster+, the companion of Captain 
Cook, who has left us a Century of Insects ; and 
Villers, whof{, even so late as 1789, made a vain 
and retrograde movement in the science, by reducing 
all the genera of Fabricius and of others to the 
Linnean standard. We may here mention the ex- 
cellent work of Schrank §, who systematically in- 
vestigated and described the insects of Austria. 
* O. F. Miller. Zoologia Danicee Prodromus. Hafnie, 
1776. 1 vol. 8vo. Also, Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina. 
Hafniz, 1764. 8vo. 
+ J. R. Forster. Nove Species Insectorum. Centuria 1 
Londini, 1771. 8vo. — A Catalogue of British Insects. 
Warrington, 1770. 8vo. 
¢ Villers. Car. Linnezi Entomologia, Faunz Suecice 
Descriptionibus aucta; D.D. Scopoli, Geoffroy, De Geer, 
Fabricii, Schrank, &c., Speciebus vel in Systemate non enu- 
meratis, vel nuperrime detectis, vel Speciebus Gallize Australis 
locupletata, Generum Specierumque rariorum Iconibus ornata ; 
curante et augente Carol. de Villers. Lugduni, 1789. 3 vols. 
8vo. 
§ F. Schrank. Enumeratio Insectorum Austrie indige- 
norum. Aug. Vind. 1781. 8vo. 
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