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their short-lived popularity, would remember this, and 

 desist from similar practices. The writings of Dr. 

 Shaw * may further be cited as a proof of the thraldom 

 in which, at this period, the zoologists of Britain were 

 held by their bigoted devotion to the letter of the 

 Sy sterna Natures. Nor was it until some years after, 

 when better principles had been established on the 

 Continent, that this unaccountable spell was broken. 

 (28.) It is worthy of remark, that the very last 

 illustrated publication, of any note, upon Entomology, 

 which appeared in England, and which is arranged 

 in accordance to the Linnaean system, is unquestion- 

 ably one of the most beautiful and the most valuable 

 that this or any country can boast of. We allude to 

 the two noble volumes upon Georgian Insects \ } 

 edited by our late amiable and excellent friend Sir 

 James Smith, the liberal possessor of the Linnaean 

 Museum, and the founder of the Society which 

 bears that name. His labours, indeed, are most 

 conspicuous in botany ; but in this work he proves 

 equally conversant both with plants and insects. 

 The plates are the last and best of Harris's perform- 

 ance ; and if the reader possesses this work, and 



* G. Shaw. Vivarium Nature ; or, The Naturalist's Miscel- 

 lany, by G. Shaw. London, 1789-90, This came out in 

 267 numbers, of 3 plates each, nearly all of which are taken 

 from other books, and generally coloured from description. — 

 General Zoology ; or, Systematic Natural History. Com- 

 menced in 1800, and continued to many volumes. — Zoologi- 

 cal Lectures. 2 vols. 8vo. ; &c. 



f J. E. Smith and Abbott. The Natural History of the 

 rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, collected from the 

 Drawings and Observations of Mr. John Abbott. London, 

 1797. 2 vols, folio. 



