History. 
—— 
Hollar, 
Johnson. 
Mey. 
Power. 
Hook. 
Charlton. 
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tennas breves, petles sex locustarum more, sed anterio- 
res multo crassiores i ue ceteris, quos quia junc- 
tos plerumque elevat (precantium ritu) a nostratibus 
— solet: totim corpus macilentum est. 
divina censetur bestiola, ut puero interroganti de 
via, altero pede extenso rectam monstrat, raro vel 
nunguam fallat. Cauda illi bifurca, setaceis acus 
leis preedita ; atque ut nanum elevatione vates refert, ita 
etiam et motus similitudine ; neque enim ludit ut alii, 
neque saltat, neque gestit ;\sed lente obambulans mo- 
destiam retinet et maturam quadam ostendit gravita- 
tem.” The work is ly an improvement on that of 
Dr Wotton, in 1550, continued by Conrad Ges- 
ner; and was enriched and published in its 
present form by Mouffet. 
In 1646, Hollar gained considerable reputation by 
his work, Muscarum, Scarabeorum, Vermiumque varie 
Jigure et forme, oinnes ad vivum coloribus depict et ex 
collectione arundeliana, §c. which was published at Ant- 
werp. 
In 1657, the Historia Naturalis of Johnson, in folio, 
was published ; but as this work is a mere compilation, 
itis unworthy of further notice; for “he has not added a 
single remark to what was before known.” 
n 1658, an English translation of Mouffet’s work 
8 et in London by Topsal, chaplain of St Bo- 
tolph. 
Goedart, about this time, published a work in the 
Dutch lan , with plates. This work, considering 
the time of its appearance, must be considered of cons 
siderable merit. It has been translated into Latin, 
French, German, and English, with copies of the plates. 
«For the space of twenty years,” we are told, “ Goe- 
dart devoted himself to the study of insects.” He 
followed them through their progressive changes with 
great precision: this renders his book more extensively 
acceptable ; and his figures, which were never surpassed 
by his predecessors, are sufficiently correct to be under- 
stood. The first edition of this work being sold off, the 
first volume'of a Latin translation, by Dr Mey, minis- 
ter of Middleburg, was produced, under the title of 
pee as Le ride he ia Naturalis Insectorum, in 1662. 
Lister allows but little credit to the translators of his 
works ; “ Goedart,” he observes, “ left his writings in 
Dutch ; his translators were men wholly ignorant of na- 
tural history, and their comments are mere rhapsodies 
altogether.” 
In 1664, a quarto relating to insects as objects of mi- 
cros¢opical investigation, by Power, was published. 
In 1665, Hook’s Micrographia appeared ; and, like 
the former work of Power, treats of minute insects. 
In 1666, was published in quarto, Adami Olearii.Got« 
kunst-kammer Sleswig. 
1667, Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum, con- 
tinens Vi ilia, Animalia et Fossilia, in hac insula re« 
perta t by Christopher Merre:, M. D. was pub- 
lished in London. This is the first work treating exclu- 
sively of the inseets of Britain: it contains a brief ca- 
talogue of such as were known to Dr Merret, each being 
accompanied by a concise descriptive sentence by way of 
name. In the first volume of the Transactions of the 
Entomological Society of London, an.account of the in- 
sects given by this author, with thei systematic names, 
is prs by A. H. Handorth, Baynt 
In 1668, Charlton published a work in London, with 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
a systematic 
Aldrovandus, enti 
on ee a as8 ap pr vor afs 
fording one many exam cul i 
rit which living merit so rarely fails es nal 
labours bestowed for the benefit of an 
world. No sooner was his death announced, than his 
merits were discovered, and his work was rendered 
into French by an anonymous translator: this and. 
many other editions soon after followed... The sys. 
tem of this author is interesting ; we shall therefore give 
a short sketch to our readers. He divides insects inte 
four classes, the characters being taken from their meta« 
morphoses and economy. The first no change, 
and includes spiders, onisci, &c. (which are noticed une 
der our article CnustaczoLoey), |The second class ine 
cludes those which, after leaving the egg, appear under, 
the form of the perfect insect, but have no wings ; im 
which state it eats and grows, till, having passed the i 
salis state, it issues thence with wi a ina ' 
tion capable of propagating its kind. This class come. 
prehends the onions Ot bith Dermaptera,. 
Dictuoptera, Hemi; and Neuroptera, of this work, 
In the third class, we find those insects which appear 
when hatched from the egg, under the form of a caters. 
pillar (Larva,) which when full grown, changes. into a 
is, where. it remains until the parts are fit to be 
orders, 1. Coleopera, and 2. plea, (Lamarck); Sucto- 
hends those who having attained the pupa (or cngnies 
in- 
sects alluded to are the orders Diptera and Hymenoptera 
of modern entomologists. rere 
’ In the same year Wolf’s Dissertatio de Insectis, §c..wore 
appeared at Leipsic, The author was professor of mes. 
eo ‘or lished his Esperimenta, 
1671, Redi publi i i circa gene= Redi, 
‘atlasmaestetntastaieoeanaeran ins, 
tained doctrine of ora generation Ment pyri 
roving by experiments and close reasoning, 
of cpjnione. At the end of this book he has given 
figures of the lice of birds. 
In 1671, Claude Perrault, one of the most learned Perrault. 
exotic entomologists of his age, author of several very. 
ingenious papers in the Memoirs of the French Academy, 
published a folio work at Paris, entitled, Memoires pour. 
servir 4 U' Histoire naturelle des Animaux. ere 
In 1672, Ferrard published a work Napiew of Ferrard. 
which we have no account, nor have we met withit, _. 
In 1673, Franzelio submitted his Insecta Novisolit. Franzelio. 
cum nive delapsa to the world, oa , 
In the same year, at Frankfort, was published by 
Mollerus, Meditatio de Insectis, quibusdam Hungaricts. yoters, 
prodigiosis anno proxime preterito, ex aere una cum nive 
in agros delapsis, ornamented with wooden cuts. rity 
