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but in 1589 he was snatched away by an untimely death. 

 His unfinished manuscripts were purchased at a considerable 

 price by Thomas Mouffet, who reduced them to order, and 

 added about 150 additional figures : but here again he died 

 before he was able to send his material to the press. The 

 work remained buried in dust and obscurity until it fell 

 into the hands of Sir Theodore Mayerne, a Court physician 

 in the time of Charles the First, who at length published it 

 in 1634, in Latin, and it was so well received that in 1658 

 an English translation was published. One part treats of 

 Be Painlionilihnx, and occupies about 20 pages, in the 

 margins of which are inserted 112 woodcuts of the rudest 

 execution in>aginable, yet for the most part perfectly 

 intelligible to the present-day entomologist. 



In 1662 Goedart published in Middlcburg a work on 

 insects, which was translated into English in 1685. Goedart 

 in stated to have spent 40 years in the study of insects, and 

 his drawings are far superior to those of his predecessors. 



John Ray, son of a blacksmith, born at Black Netley, 

 in 1628, began his woi'k on insects at the advanced age of 75, 

 but died two years afterwards, when his work was nearly 

 ready for the press. He enumerates 50 species of butterflies, 

 and in a letter to Dr. Derham, who subsequently published 

 it, he gives a list of books available on the subject at that 

 time. 



One of Ray's friends, James Petiver, jjublished an 

 entirely entomological work, in which he enumerates about 

 80 British butterflies, the figures being (for these times) well 

 executed. Fifty of them are undoubted British species, the 

 remaining 30 figures are varieties, or the opposite sex to 

 those figured. This was a common fault in those days, 

 depicting and describing the male and female as two distinct 

 species. 



The next work that arrests our attention is that of 

 Eleazar Albin, a painter of no small ability, who in the 

 year 1720 published a " Natural Hixforj/ of English I»Kerf!<," 

 illustrated with 100 copper plates, engraven from the life.. 



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