g[26i Natural History. 



Species, as some of the other classes, has yet re- 

 ceived considerable augmentation in this way. Of 

 Fishes LiNNiEUS described about/o?/r hundred spe- 

 cies; but since he wrote the catalogue has been so 

 much enlarged by circumnavigators and travellers, 

 that they now amount to considerably more than 

 one thousand. The number of new species of 

 Insects discovered at different periods of the cen- 

 tury is prodigiously great. Before the time of 

 LiNNiEuS scarcely more than two hundred species 

 were known. In the last editions of his works he 

 described about three thousand. There are now 

 known more than twenty thousand species. The 

 same augmentation has taken place with respect 

 to the Vermes, a class which, in the hands of 

 Ellis, Pallas, Muller, and others, before men- 

 tioned, has wonderfully enlarged its bounds. 



Though our own country, during the period 

 under review, has not produced many distinguished 

 inquirers in zoology, it can boast of some who 

 have rendered themselves conspicuous by pursuits 

 of this nature. Mr. Catesby, and Dr. Garden, 

 before mentioned, though not native Americans, 

 resided long in our country, and threw much 

 light on the animal kingdom, as it appears on this 

 side of the Atlantic. Mr. Glover, a planter of 

 Virginia, also communicated to the public some 

 valuable information respecting American zoology.' 

 Air. William Bartram, of Pennsylvania, an 

 indefatigable and well informed student of nature, 

 added considerably to the number of facts before 

 known concerning the animals of the southern and 

 western parts of the United States, and the adja- 

 cent territory.-' Still more recently Dr. Barton, 



i The principal part of Mr. Glover's communications respecting Ame- 

 rican zoology, appeared in the Philosophical Transactions^ about the year 

 1740. 



;■ Travels through North and Soutb-Carolhta) Georgia, ^ast and JVest'Fltt^ 

 fi'da, &c. from 1773 to 1778. 



