460 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



ing society consists at this time of above 600 members, 

 of whom more than 500 are Fellows; a gratifying proof 

 how widely Natural History is cultivated in the British 

 Empire a . 



5. Era of Fabricius, or of the Maxillary System. We 

 are now arrived, if its consequences be considered, at 

 one of the most important epochs of the science. Fa- 

 bricius, a pupil of Linne, who highly estimated his en- 

 tomological acquirements 13 , thinking that the system of 

 his master was not built upon a foundation sufficiently 

 fixed and restricted , conceived the idea of doing for 

 Entomology what the latter had done for Botany. As 

 the learned and illustrious Swede had assumed the Fruc- 

 tification for the basis of his system in that science, so 

 the emulous and highly-gifted Dane, observing how 

 happily those organs were employed as characters in 

 extricating the genera of Vertebrate animals, assumed 

 the instruments of manducation, far more numerous and 

 various in insects, for the basis of a new system of En- 



* Since the former edition of these volumes was published, an- 

 other and most important association has been formed, having for 

 its object the Animal Kingdom solely ; which not only has a museum 

 to receive specimens of dead animals (by the liberal donation of its 

 present learned secretary, of his own rich collection, and from other 

 sources, already most interesting both as a spectacle and to the 

 student), but also a Vivarium, in which a considerable and curious 

 assemblage of living animals may be seen. This association, which 

 is named THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, is principally indebted for its 

 formation to the efforts of a great, amiable, and lamented character, 

 the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, whose merits were equally 

 conspicuous both as a Politician and a Naturalist, and who was its 

 first President. 



* Linne is recorded to have said, " Si Dominus Fabricius venit cum 

 aliquo Insecto, et Dominus Zoega cum aliquo Musco, tune ego pile- 

 urn detraho et clico : Estote doctores mei." Stoever's Life of Lin* 

 nccus. 186. c Fab. Philos. Entoniolog. Pracf. 



