HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



or was it made by himself a ? It is singular that Linne 

 should never allude to this work. Goedart, who belongs 

 also to this era, is stated to have spent forty years of his 

 life in attending to the proceedings of insects 5 . But after 

 this long study, his principal use to the science was the 

 improvement he effected in the drawing and engraving 

 of them, for his figures, though sometimes incorrect 

 and sometimes fabulous, were far superior to those of 

 his predecessors. 



3. The Era of Shammer dam and Ray, or of the Me- 

 tamorphotic System. The great men whose names are 

 here united, as they were cotemporary, so they agreed 

 in founding their respective systems of insects on the 

 same basis. To the former, however, is due the merit 

 of being the first who assumed the metamorphoses of these 

 animals as the basis of a natural arrangement of them ; 

 upon which the latter, in conjunction with his lamented 

 friend Willughby, erected that superstructure which 

 opened the door for the present improved state of the 

 science. Swammerdam's system may be thus expressed 

 in modern language : 



f~ Class i. Metamorphosis complete c =Aptera L. d 



ii. semicomplete { ?,?ff r *' Hcmiptera. 



c Libellulma^ Ephemcnna v . 



C Colcoptera, Hymenoptera, 

 C incomplete 1 part of Neuroptera and 



Dipteral 

 (. obtected Lepidoptcra 5 . 



coarctate \ Ichneumones mimtti L." 

 MuscidcB, &c'. 



a Aristotle (.Eft's/. Anim. 1. i. c. 1.) says, "The sponge seems to have 

 some sensation : as a proof, it is not easily plucked up, unless, so they 

 say, the attempt is concealed." h Lister's Goedart, Prof, ii. 



1 See VOL. I. p. 65, where these terms are explained. 



d Svvamm. Sibl. Kal. i, 38-. c Ibid. 02. * Ibid. 119, 



* Ibid, ii, 1. h Ibid. 31 . ; Ibid, 30. 



