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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 Linnaeus, 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, who J, 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 

 Linnaean standard. We may here mention the ex- 

 cellent work of Schrank §, who systematically in- 

 vestigated and described the insects of Austria. 



* O. F. Miiller. Zoologia? Danica? Prodromus. Hafnia?, 

 1776. 1 vol. 8vo. Also, Fauna Insectoruin Fridrichsdalina. 

 Hafnia?, 1764. 8vo. 



f J. R. Forster. Novae Species Insectorum. Centuria 1 

 Londini, 1771. 8vo. — A Catalogue of British Insects. 

 Warrington, 1770. 8vo. 



\ Villers. Car. Linna?i Entomologia, Fauna? Suecica? 

 Descriptionibus aucta ; D. D. Scopoli, GeofFroy, De Geer, 

 Fabricii, Schrank, &c, Speciebus vel in Systemate non enu- 

 meratis, vel nuperrime detectis, vel Speciebus Gallia? Australis 

 locupletata, Generum Specierumque rariorum Iconibus ornata; 

 curante et augente Carol, de Villers. Lugduni, 1789. 3 vols. 

 8vo. 



§ F. Schrank. Enumeratio Insectorum Austria? indige- 

 norura. Aug. Vind. 1781. 8vo. 

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