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often mentions insects. He has, however, few original 

 observations. One was, that scorpions are viviparous 3 . 

 From him we learn incidentally that artificial flies were 

 sometimes used by Grecian anglers 5 . 



2. The Era of the Revival of the Science. From the 

 time of Pliny and -ZEliaia 1400 years rolled away, in 

 which scarcely any thing was done or attempted for En- 

 tomology or Natural History in general. During that 

 long night the glimmer of only one faint luminary ap- 

 peared to make a short and feeble twilight. In the 

 middle of the thirteenty century Albertus Magnus (so 

 called from his family name of Groot, and justly, if in- 

 credible labour could entitle a man to the appellation), 

 devoted one out of twenty-one folio volumes to Natural 

 History. In this work he professes not so much to give 

 his own opinions, as those of the Peripatetic philoso- 

 phers . He occasionally, however, relates the result of 

 observations made by himself, which prove him to have 

 been no inattentive student of nature. He mentions a 

 voyage that he made for the purpose of collecting ma- 

 rine animals, and that he found of them ten different 

 tribes or genera, and several species of each. Amongst 

 these he particularizes the Cephalopoda, the Crustacea, 

 the testaceous Mollusca, and some of the Radiata and 

 Acrita, &c. d He gives a very correct account of the 

 pitfalls of Myrmeleon. Insects he distinguishes, exclu- 

 ding the Crustacea, by the denomination of Anulosa (An- 

 nulosa), which he appears to employ as a known term e . 

 He also calls them worms, describing butterflies as flying 



a De Natur. Animal. 1. vi. c. 20. b Ibid. 1. xv. c. 1. 



c Opera vi. 683, d Ibid. 153. e Ibid. 154, 233, 265, &c. 



