History. 
Marsham. 
Roemer. 
Olivier. 
Paykull, 
“pars Eat y 
70 
a work.entitled Niitzliches Allerley aus der Natur und 
ay gemeinen Leben fiir allerley Leser von Joh, Aug, 
And Mr Marsham wrote the: article ray ig’ tae 
Hall's Encyclopedia, which is illustrated by 
lates. In this article he briefly explains the entomo- 
ical system of Linné, and. mentions. the names of 
other authors of eminence ; and likewise explains the 
mode of collecting and prerg insects. 
Also Beobachtungen und leckungen aus der Na- 
turkunde von der Ge. Naturforschender Freunde 
zu Berlin, in octavo. 
Likewise J. T. Zs-chach, Museum N. G. Leskeanum 
a, octavo, Lipsie.  ...., 
In 1789, a second edition of Berkenhout's outlines, 
under the title of Synopsis of the Natural History of 
Great Britain, §c. ap . 
And Johannes Jacobus Roemer published his Genera 
Insectorum Linnai et Fabricit, Iconibus illustrata, &c. 
Vitaduri Helvetorum, in-quarto, with thirty-seven ex- 
planatory plates, nearl of which had previously 
constituted the work of Sulzer, 
Tn this year, also, the first part of a most voluminous 
work, on entomology, was undertaken, at Paris, by the 
celebrated Olivier, entitled Ex ie, ou Histoire 
Naturelle des Insectes, avec des charactéres génériques et 
specifiques, &c. par M. Olivier, M. D. a Paris, in quarto. 
rom its title, we might infer, thatthe author intended 
to have treated. on every class and order, and, in con- 
formity with the first part, to have illustrated the whole 
be He, POMP Gn oraitinet the work, 
which is very extensive, entirely to the order coleoptera, 
which ke deh as Pesan as possible ; it is, how- 
ever, as must be |, a very defective, yet a va~ 
luable and useful w 
Paykull published in this year, at Upsal, Ejusdem, 
Meneareghen hylinorum Svecie, in octavo. —— , 
A de Villers published, at Lyons, a small work, 
under the title of Linnai Entomologia, 5c. curante et 
Lugduni, in octavo, in which 
to avail 
Geoffroy, De Geer, and 
In this year Natursytem aller hekannten in und auslan- 
dischen Insecten, &c. von, Carl. Gustay. dablerteve und 
Jfortgesetzt von Jobann, Friedrich. Wilhelm. 
Ber! = a in octavo, Anf gs hes 
And at Leipsic, in octavo, Anfangs-griinde der Natur- 
geschichte on eb. Gotfr, foran 
a 1790, ny ip on the genus jg pon 
in the Jour. tir die Entomologie, by Mayer, who, in 
the following year, published a work, Fl octavo, at 
Dresden, entitled Sammlung Physikalischer aufsitze, 
besonders die Bohmische Naturgeschichte betreffend, von 
einer Gesellschaft. Bohemischer Naturforscher ; heraus- 
gegeben von, Dr Johann. Mayer. 
In the same year, 1790, a Johann, Daniel 
Preysler Verzeichniss Bohmischer Insecten, Prag. in 
quarto, which is a catalogue of the insects of Bohemia. 
And Fauna Etrusca, sistens Insecta, in inciis 
Florentina et Pisana presertim collegit, Petrus Rossius, 
&c, Liburni, in quarto, ‘ 
Also, Dissertatio Historico-Naturalis, ignotas Insecto- 
rum species Continens, Conrad Qu » Lunde, in 
quarto, Quesnel is author also of two tracts, but we are 
an Soaks Sabena thee toe aan en saan in 
fer 8 nya Suenska, Da irilary an Pop the oer 
on noctua pruni, Beskrifning ifver eny Nattf ja 
Paykull published, in the same year, his Tirepeptis 
Car Suecia, 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
T | ici aanitih atin ai 
Ae ete i Gsclichle, Herausy Sey 
von Ludwig r 
Entomologie, Herausgegeben 
o n von L. G, Scriba, 
kfurt, in octavo. __ wong ret 
“And Insecien, Koléndar, vom Wic. oe. Brabay. Msins, seine A 
j , it was di its author, who, with great 
cae Sane Sree aaa 
sorry 
this Tablication, which, we are 
persenenes. We notice it, as we perceive it quoted 
y children, who, (with such a work as the 
might have given to the world,) would very 
natural hi , so much in this country. 
In os eye LSA pens several valuable en- 
ical works, er i a work which we 
have noticed under the year 1790, whilst speaking of 
The first volume of the Transactions of the Li: nean 
in 
pide ar pg oy 
i be F ~ 
on ctbeotan on the history of hese 
5 . Stralsund, in octavo. 
an in’ 
* Ludwig: 
engerchitt Frankfurt am Main, quarto, by. 
Johannes Ludwig. 
In the year 1792, several valuable works were pro- Donovan. 
duced, and amo: others, the first part of a cons 
siderable work, Natural Hi of British Insects, 
by Edward Donovan, which has since been continued 
in monthly numbers until the present time. The 
design of this immense undertaking is to afford ge- 
nD and scientific descriptions of all the insects of , - 1 
Great Britain, accompanied with a coloured Ggare, of 
each, as far as possible in their various states of trans- 
formation. The work at this time consists of eighteen 
volumes, and includes an extensive variety of the er 
cies, being the most extensive work hitherto under- 
taken as an elucidation of the Entomology of oe 
It is in octavo, and still continues to appear in monthly 
numbers. it + . 
Thomas Martyn published in this year, in imperial Martyn. 
ali the coleopterous Insects found in England, in- 
quarto at London, The English E ist, 
ceding upnards of five hundred different Species, the 
