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Ego qui nunc novam paro editioneni Zoologicam Syst. Nat.* summam in insectis sentio clifficultatem 

 ita exprimere, ut aliis intelligas quod tam facile figuris laivatur. Multa praestitit noster De Geer de 

 Insectis, sed majora adhuc pra?stitisset, si figurae vivis coloribus ornatse fuissent. Quis Entomologus 

 est alius apud vos qui coUcctionem Insectoruni possidet ex India oceidentali, si quis esset qui desideraret 

 insecta Suecica lubenter Illi ea prsestare vellem. 



Nuper litteras habui ex America Meridionali ubi morbus endemius est hominum etiam Europeos 

 aggredit illuc venientes quse causatur a larva CEstri, quae intra cutem per integrum annum coelatus et 

 nullo remedio expelli potest nisi periculo vitee ; est nova species Qilstri. 



Sed hie vale et niihi fave. 



Dabani Upsaliae, d. 10 Mart. 17S0. 

 To Mr. D. Drury, Goldsmith in the Strand, in London. 



My late friend A. H. Haworth, Esq. thus spoke of Drury and his works in the year 

 I8O7. "In the year 1770 we arrive at the time of publication of a beautiful work on 

 Entomology, that of my late and regretted friend D. Drury, F.L.S. in one vol. 4to. printed 

 at London, and containing comprehensive descriptions in English and French, with an 

 Index of Linnsean names at the end, and a great many coloured copper-plates of such 

 interestino- exotic Insects, as had not been before or insufficientlv figured. The icons 

 were executed by Moses Harris, in his best style ; and are far superior to any of their pre- 

 decessors in Britain. 



" It is also unquestionably the first work in this country in which the trivial names of 

 Linnseus are suffered to make their appearance, and although only given in the shape of 

 an index, their extensive value throws a lustre on the utility of the work, which, unaided 

 by them, would not have reached a second volume, published in 1773, and a third 

 in 178*2 ; and even a fourth would have appeared if the author had lived much longer ;'|" as 

 he himself assured me, some time prior to his decease ; wherein would have been delineated 

 some of the gigantic and extraordinary insects of Demerara, in which remote territory he 

 had successfully employed a collecting agent. Mr. Drury's Cabinet was one of the most 

 extensive ever made ; and is said to have contained, in species and varieties, the surprising 

 number of 11,000 insects. He spared neither pains nor cost in getting them together, and 

 like Petiver of old, sent printed instructions, in various languages, all over the world for 

 that purpose, by captains of ships and others. 



" Soon after his decease, at an advanced age, which happened about two years since, 

 his valuable collection was disposed of in London, by public auction." — (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Vol. I. I8O7. p. 3i.) 



The decease of Mr. Dru Drury occurred on the 15th of January, 1804, at the age of 

 eighty, and he was buried at the parish church of St. Martins in the Fields. 



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* This contemplated edition of tlie Syst. Nat. never appears to have been published, 

 t I find no notice of tliis contemplated fourth volume amongst Drury's manuscriirts. 



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