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species Insectorum centuria, 1; the avowed purpose of stated to have-been published in this year, but is no- _ History. 
“_~ which, as the reailer is informed in the preface, was to ticed by us as having been published in the year 1749, “"Y" 
ive descriptions of one hundred insects, not mentioned or earlier: but, from the comments made on that work 
im the latest work of the illustrious Linné. ‘The in- by Riésel, it must have been published, as we have sta- 
ted, in or before 1749. 
In 1774 was published at Amsterdam, in folio, by L’Admiral. 
Jacob L’Admiral, Veranderi van Veele Insecten. 
Also, at Halle, in 8yo. Der Naturforscher, but the au- 
‘ thor’s name not known to us, ; 
of the insects seem to have beenun- _ And, in this year, Iwan Lepechius Tagebuch der Tagebuch. 
to Linné, and some Le RN Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen der Russischen 
er and Reichs; Altenburg. One volume appeared first, and 
i ; y two others before 1783. , 
observation of Linné, whose work he was - In 1775, an interesting little work, describing the in- Faeslins. 
i i i i sects of Switzerland, under the title Verzeichniss der 
one of those eminent naturalists ihm Bekanten Sune we printed at 
accompanied the celebrated Captain Cook in his Zurich, in quarto, by aspar Faeslins. 7m 
i In this pat J. C. Fabricius, a pupil of Linné, pub- Fabricius. 
i im, ri yg Pa RARE , under the title Sys- 
Mantissa Plantarum altera generum editionis vi. tema E ie, in whi principles of a new 
et Specierum editionis ii. Holmie, of Linné, in which SDUAae shaudiietanrés teavthe dese'ainie|clenphoneh, 
several insects, not noticed in other parts of his works, He has taken the essential characters of the classes (or- 
are described, octavo, in this year. ders, Linné would have termed them) from the 
In 1772, Curtis in London a translation of of the mouth (Instrumenta cibaria), which has given 
the Fundamenta Entomologia of Linné, which consider- _ this the title of Cibarian System. in this work, di- 
yoo rym 383 Leng ete mee T ERNE 4 Pose insects into eight ee So hee ——, 
in same » Dr J Lettsome, Synistata, Agonata, nogata, yngota, an 
in aT. Naturalists and. ‘Travellers pa: saree ary bon winaes agp erineae PPC mee” 
Companion, giving directions how to collect and y very ; but his mode of distinguishing the genera 
ansaie adi aeastols oatenel etedioations, Je hits niece un elt sattionah, casdecmndestheiging: teotee beiawhotgie of 
‘several editions, and may be considered asa natural genera, which, by his method, are generally to be 
very useful book to students of en stp eens see eee of any other parts. 
“Riso M. Th. Braunichil ZoSlogia Fendewenta Ashe has since that time written several other works, and 
iont i Linsie, added. considerably to this system, we shall defer no- 
ticing it further for the present. We may, however, 
In 1773, Kahn published a tract relative to the mode observe, that he gained such reputation from this work, 
of preserving and catching insects, entitled Kurze an- that he was induced to prosecute his entomological-stu- 
leitung Insecten zu sammlen, dies with increased ardour, and during his lifetime al- 
Thomas Pattinson Yeats i Institutions of Ww ne Sea AR SANE ETE BET 
i i shlans Desoriplinnss Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, 
Linnean orders and genera, collated with three other Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; que in Itinere Orien- 
namely, those of Geoffroy, Scopoli, and Schef- ali observavit, Petrus Forskal, Prof. Harn. Post 
Sentegethor wen many i observations, by its mortem Auctoris, edidit Carsten Niebuhr; Havnie, 
translator. It is parti 'y defective, however, in the quarto. 
comparison drawn ee Moses Harris also ished a little let, enti- Harris. 
. ¢ co Nae ner aan = The Fagiek i bs or Aurelian’s Aacgad 
When Scopoli published y ere omen Am nion, London ; an alphabetical catalogue 
coincided very nearly with Linné, in hi mee ome the lepidoptera collected. by its author in E 
i he land. is little tract, although ap tly insigni 
and another. For an account cant, has materially contributed to ihe pinenical study 
‘the system alluded to, see the year 1777. of entomology. The Linnean names, as far as they 
ree mensin ny teavo- were known to him, with the time and place of the 
lebrated Russian naturalist Pallas, appeared, entitled, appearance of the insects, in both states, are concisely 
P. S»Pallas Reise darch Verschiedene Provinzen des given incolumns. A frontispiece is added, explaining 
Russichen Reichs. St Petersburgh, which has been ren- terms used in the description of animals of this order. 
Latin and English. In 1776, Peter Brown figured a number of insects in Brown. 
In this year, also, Dr John Hill published a Decade his New perenne Apa Ae 
of curious Insects, some of them not described before, In this year, Sulzer published, in quarto, Abge- Sulzer. 
shown in their natural size, and as they a before kiirzte Geschichte der Insecten, Winterthur. 
the Lucernal Microscope, in which the Apparatus was The Genera Insectorum of Fabricius appeared in this Fabricius. 
artificially i/luminated ; with their History, &c.: illus- year. 
trated with ten quarto plates, in which the figures are In this year, also, J. H. Sulzer’s Abgehiirtze Ges- sulzer. 
sometimes immensely magnified, and far from correct. chichte der Insecten, 2 Theile, quarto. 
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nied with various interesting observations as to their Paula Schrank, peg, octavo, 
natural hi and econom In this year, O. F, Miiller Zoologia Danica Prodro- yuler. 
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In the Transactions eS ae of mus, &e. Hafnize, in octavo, and must ever be 
i work of Benjamin is considered a most v and useful work, 
