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all the \\Titers on this branch of zoological inquiry, 

 Mark Eleazer Bloch, a Jew physician of Berlin, is 

 said to be the most able and complete. To which 

 may be added, that La Cepede, before mentioned, 

 has commenced the publication of an extensive 

 work on fishes, of which great expectations are 

 fomied*. 



In addition to the great ichthyologists already 

 mentioned, several other names are entitled to re- 

 spectful notice.— Professor Monro's celebrated work 

 on the physiology of fishes has been long and 

 highly commended. Gronovius, Scopoli, and Klein 

 have also written instructively on this class of the 

 animal kingdom. 



The inquiries and discoveries with respect to 

 the Insect a, the ^fifth class in the Linnsean arrange- 

 ment, have also been numerous and highly impor- 

 tant during tlie period in question. Swammerdam 

 was one of the first who paid particular attention 

 to insects. He was followed by madame Merian, 

 a celebrated German lady-j-, v/ho, by her work on 

 the Insects of Surinam, rendered very important 

 services to Entomology. This illustrious female 

 naturalist was followed by Linnaeus, who first pro- 

 duced a systematic arrangement of insects, at once 



* This great ichthyologist has already given four quarto vo- 

 lumes of his work to the public, containing a description of 309 

 fishes, of which 54 were before unknown to naturalists. When 

 finished, it will probably be the most complete and splendid work, 

 on ihis branch of natural history, in existence. — Garnet's Annuls ef 

 Vhilosopliy for ISOO. 



t Moiia Sibylla Merian was born in 164/, and died in 1717, 

 Her great work, entitled Surinaamsche Insecten (folio 1705), was, 

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

 Lad ever been produced in Europe. 



