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APTERA. 

 Aptera se pedibus pennarum ncscia jactant. 



Exit tres setas cauda extendente Lepisma. 

 Saltatrix est cauda Podurce inflexa bifurca. 

 Armantur Termis maxillis ora duabus 

 Pert telum quod ab ore Pediculus edat acutum. 

 Pulicis inflexum rostrum est, teluraque recondit. 

 Octo Acarus pedibus duplicique instmctus ocello est. 

 Lumina bis bina octipcdata Phalangia gestant. 

 Octo oculis totidem pedibusque se Aranea jactat. 

 His etiam adjungit chelatos Scorpio palpos. 

 Dena pedum natura dedit fulcimina Cancro. 

 Unoculo bissena (duosque ambobus ocellos) 

 Quorum his chelatos gerit, ille gemellos. 

 Ovalis pedibus bis septem incedit Oniscus 

 Innumeris pedibus Scolopendra angusta movetur. 

 Secernit reliquis structura cylindrica lulum. 



During this era, and by the influence of Linne, in the 

 year 1739 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm 

 was established, which did for Natural History in Swe- 

 den what our own Royal Society had done for it in Eng- 

 land. Other societies, with a similar object, were form- 

 ed in different parts of Europe, and were attended by 

 similar good effects. At Paris, at Berlin, at St. Peters- 

 burg, at Moscow, at Turin, at Lisbon, &c., the lovers 

 of Nature, at that time and subsequently, have asso- 

 ciated for this purpose ; and I may mention here, that I 

 may not revert to the subject, the great Natural History 

 association of our own country, THE LTNNEAN SOCIETY, 

 named after the illustrious Swede, which was first insti- 

 tuted in 1788, and incorporated by royal charter in 

 1802. In the Transactions of this learned body, the 

 Zoologist in general, and particularly the Entomologist, 

 will find much useful information and many interesting 

 observations connected with his science. This flourish- 



