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new designs were added to a second edition of the 

 Surinam Insects, published two years after the 

 author's death hy her youngest daughter, Dorothea 

 Maria Henrietta. They are twelve in number, 

 making the entire amount of plates seventy-two, 

 but are regarded as very inferior in execution to the 

 others. Another edition subsequently appeared at 

 the Hague (1726) with the text in Latin and 

 French ; and mention is made of a fourth, wTitten 

 in the Dutch language, which is not, however, ac- 

 counted of much value. 



Another work is occasionally referred to as the 

 production of Madam Merian, under the title of 

 " Histoire des Insectes de 1'Europe dessines d'apres 

 nature et expliques par M. S. Merian;" translated 

 into Dutch and French by J. Marret (Amsterdam, 

 1730.) This we have had no opportunity of ex- 

 amining, but it is said to be little more than a 

 reprint of the Erucarum ortus, &c. with some 

 additions and alterations. 



Many of this lady's beautiful drawings are still 

 preserved. A considerable number, purchased at 

 a high price by Sir Hans Sloane, and subsequently 

 deposited along with his other collections in the 

 British Museum, are asserted, however, to exhibit 

 traces of the graver*, but the colouring is entirely 

 executed by her own hand. These are done on 



* Surely there must be some mistake here, for if these 

 coloured drawings be done on vellum, there can be no trace 

 of the graver. 



