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undoubtedly the germ of that revolution in ento- 

 mology subsequently effected by Latreille*, whose 

 labours in this department are immense. Geoffroy 

 St. Hilaire, and the two Cuviersf , prosecuted the 

 study of Quadrupeds in France,, while Illiger J was 

 doing the same in Prussia. The exquisite and 

 elaborate works of Poli § on the comparative anatomy 

 of the Mollusca, is alone sufficient to immortalise a 

 name ; and this unrivalled publication led the way for 

 the valuable memoirs on the same class by Cuvier, 

 which were subsequently collected into a volume. || 

 Lamarck, well characterised as the most accomplished 

 zoologist of this era <j[ , took up the whole of the in- 

 vertebrated animals : while a series of splendid illus- 

 trations in folio, by Temminck, Desmarest, Vieillot, 

 Audebert**, and many others of a still later date, 



* P. A. Latreille. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum. 

 Paris, 1806, 1807. 



•f* MM. Lacepede, Cuvier, and Geoffroy St. Hilaire. Me- 

 nagerie du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 1804. 2 vols. 

 4to. 



F. Cuvier and Geoff. St. Hilaire. Histoire Naturelle 

 des Mammiferes. Paris, 1819 — 1822. folio, in numbers. 



\ C. Illiger. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium. 

 Berolini, 1811. 



§ J. X. Poli. Testacea utriusque Siciliae. Parma?, 1795. 

 2 vols. imp. folio. 



|| Cuvier. M£moires pour servir a l'Histoire et a l'Ana- 

 tomie des Mollusques. Paris, 1817. 1 vol. 4to. 



J Horae Entom. p. 328. 



** C. I. Temminck. Histoire Naturelle Generale des Pi- 

 geons. Paris, 1808. folio. 



A. Desmarest. Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Ma- 

 nakins, et des Todiers. Paris, 1 805. folio. 



L. P. Vieillot. Histoire Naturelle des plus beaux Chan- 



