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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CHIEF AUTHORS. 



I WILL now, in conclusion, lay before the reader a short alpha- 

 betical list of the chief Entomological authors, with a concise 

 notice of their chief works which are deemed of standard merit, 

 and which no Entomological library should be destitute of. There 

 are a great number of names which are necessarily omitted for 

 want of space, the following being the most eminent only of the 

 writers upon this branch of natural history. 



ARISTOTLE. The father of natural history. He lived about the 

 year 330 B. c., and devoted considerable attention to the natural 

 history of insects, which he separated under the name of Entoma 

 from the Crustacea, which he called Malacostraca, and divided into 

 three sections: 1. Those with wings, Pterota or Ptilota ; 2. Those 

 occasionally furnished with wings ; and, 3. Those destitute of wings. 

 In the first were comprised various subdivisions, admirably con- 

 structed, including the present orders Coleoptera, Diptera (which 

 two names are still retained), and others corresponding with the 

 Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, &c. In the second section were placed 

 the ant and the glow-worm ; and in the third, all wingless insects. 



AUDOUIN (Victor). Professor of Entomology at the Jardin des 

 Plantes, Paris ; author of numerous detached Entomological me- 

 moirs ; but especially known by his invaluable researches upon the 

 structure of the thorax. 



BOISDUVAL (Mons.) A French entomologist, especially distin- 

 guished for various works upon Lepidoptera ; the most valuable of 

 which is his Natural History of Lepidopterous Insects, forming part 

 of the Suites a Buffon. 



BURMEISTER (Dr. Hermann). A young Prussian entomologist 

 of the highest promise. His works exhibit profound erudition, an 

 admirable ingenuity and correctness in the anatomical details, and 

 the greatest carefulness in the elaboration of his materials. He 

 has published various memoirs of great merit ; but is best known 

 by his Handbuch der Entomologie, or Manual of Entomology, a 



