366 Rev. F. D. Morice and J. H. Durrant on the 



doubt, either as to what is really meant in certain obscure 

 passages, or as to whether we have succeeded in expressing 

 what we beUeve to be their meaning intelhgibly. 



(1) The First Part of the Article (23 May, 1801). 



{" Sonnahends am 25 May, 1801 ") 



V. Miscellaneous Notices. 



Notice of a new Entomological Work by Hr. Prof. Jurine 

 of Geneva. 



Several published Papers and Serials have already 

 given Notice in advance of an Enterprise extremely im- 

 portant to Entomology, which is to be undertaken by 

 one of the most estimable and excellent of Entomologists, 

 Hr. Prof. Jurine of Geneva. We can now not only con- 

 firm this Notice, but supplement it by the Statement, 

 that this Enterprise is now really near Completion, the 

 Work is actually in the Press, and already seven admirably 

 engraved Copper-plates in med. quarto have been com- 

 municated by the Author to a German Entomologist * 

 as Proofs for Inspection in Advance. 



Provisionally therefore, until the Work can speak for 

 itself, we can now make the entomological Pubhc some- 

 what more closely acquainted with the Plan of this Enter- 

 prise, and detail in advance the Design of the Author, 

 according to the Sheets that He before us. 



As Main-subject of his entomological Pursuits, Hr. 

 Prof. Jurine has for years chosen, almost exclusively and 

 by Preference, that Class of the Insects, which the late 

 Chief-physician f von Linne has named Hymenoptera 

 and Hr. Prof. Fabricius Piezata ; and classified them by a 

 novel Method % never previously employed. 



Its Foundation rests on the Wings of the Insects included 

 therein, but especially on the Vessels dividing them, some- 

 times more, sometimes less reticulately, or what are called 

 the Nerves and Veins. The three Orders, however, into 

 which this Class of Insects has been subdivided by Hr. 



* No doubt Panzer himself. 



t Linn6 held this appointment in the Court of the King of 

 S weden. 



% Nouvelle Methode, it will be remembered, is the title which 

 Jurine adopted for his book. 



