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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 Linnaeus : 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 Linnaean nomenclature, than from a 

 departure from that mode of arrangement which ori- 

 ginated with the great Swede. Sulzer was the first 

 who adopted the Linnaean 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 Linne. Zurich, 1761. 

 1 vol. 4to. (2.) Abgekiirzte geschichte der Insecten, &c. ; or, 

 The abridged History of Insects, according to Linne. Win- 

 terthur, 1776. 2 vols. 4to. 



