504 Additional Notes. 



The Philosophia Tchtkyologica of Artedi, especially the 

 second edition (1792), by Dr. Walbaum, of Lubeck, in 

 three vols. 4to. may be considered as one of the most valu- 

 able works on this subject produced during the age under re- 

 view. — Artedt was a Swede, the cotemporary and friend 

 of LiNN-EUs. He was born in 1705, two years before his 

 illustrious countryman; and died in 1735, being accidentally 

 drowned in a canal at Amsterdam. 



Insects, p. 123. 



Maria Sybilla Merian, a celebrated German lady, 

 was born in 1647, and died in 1717. She is, therefore, er- 

 roneously placed after Linn.eus, who did not make his first 

 publication till a number of years after her death. She ren- 

 dered very important services to Entomology. Her great 

 work, entitled Surinaamschc Insccten (folio 1705), was, at 

 the time of its publication, one of the most magnificent that 

 had ever been produced in Europe. 



LiNN.^us first produced a systematic arrangement of In- 

 sects, at once sufficiently comprehensive, and in a due degree 

 minute in its distinctions. He distributed all insects into seve?i 

 orders, taking the distinctive marks from variations in the 

 structure of the wings, or the entire absence of these organs. 

 Fabricius formed a new system essentially different from that 

 of LiNN^us. He employs for the foundation of his ar- 

 rangement, the diversities in those parts of the organization 

 with which insects take their food. — The arrangement of 

 LiNNiEUs is commonly preferred, especially in Great-Bri- 

 tain ; but that of Fabricius has many admirers on the con- 

 tinent of Europe. 



When Reaumur and Fabricius are mentioned together, 

 and a place assigned them in the first rank of entomologists, 

 it is to be remembered that each has a different kind of ex- 

 cellence. FabPvIcius Is a great technical or systematic en- 

 tomologist ; but he has done, comparatively speaking, little 

 in regard to the physiology or philosophy of the subject. 

 In this point of view nothing has appeared that will bear a 

 comparison with the great work of Reaumur. 



Important contributions to the natural history of Insects 

 have also been made, during the period under consideration^ 



