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excellent author, are as wonderful as the work itself; 

 and together, to use Bonnet's words, form a demonstration 

 of the existence of GOD. It is infinitely to be regretted 

 that the author of this incomparable monument of sci- 

 entific ardour and patient industry should have died be- 

 fore the full completion of his anatomical description of 

 the pupa and imago of the same insect ; of which he had 

 prepared a considerable portion of the manuscript, and 

 engraved upwards of twenty of the plates a . 



Numerous other writers in various departments of the 

 science appeared during this era ; but it would be useless 

 to enter into a particular detail of their works and merits. 

 I cannot however omit noticing, on account of his inimi- 

 tably accurate and chastely coloured representations of 

 Lepidoptera, Sepp's beautiful Nederlandsche Insect en, in 

 which the whole history of these animals, from the egg 

 to the fly, is described and portrayed. In our own 

 country this era was distinguished by no entomological 

 work of any great eminence. Albin, Wilks, and Harris 

 produced the principal. Gould, however, without hav- 

 ing any thing of system, gave an admirable account of 

 English ants, which I formerly noticed 5 . 



One of our first poets, the celebrated Gray, was also 

 much devoted to Entomology. From his interleaved 

 copy of the Systema Natures, that venerable and able na- 

 turalist, Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart, copied the following 

 characters of the genera of insects of Linne, drawn up 

 in Latin Hexameters, which he kindly communicated to 

 me. 



a We have been informed that these valuable remains are at length 

 likely to be rescued from oblivion, and given to the public. 

 b VOL. II. p. 48, note *. 



