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agree in assis^iiing to Reaumur and Fabricius the 

 first rank*. Beside these, Frisch, Rosenhof, Klee- 

 nian, Roesel, Sulzer, Schafer, and several other 

 German entomologists, have written on this class 

 of animals. In the present list, professor Pallas is 

 also entitled to -a distinguished place. His Icones 

 Insectarum is a very valuable work. The insects 

 without loings liave been very ably described by J, 

 Herlet, of Germany. To these names may be added 

 that of Dr. Smith, the Linnceus of Great Britain, 

 whose account of the rarer lepidopterous insects of 

 Georgia, is entitled to a place among the most splen- 

 did, accurate, arid valuable zoological works of the 



agef. 



In the investigation of the Vermes, the sixth and 

 last class of Linnaeus, the advances made in mo- 

 dern times have been no less eminent. The first 

 writer to be mentioned under this head is Donati, 

 whose work on the vermes of the Adriatic -is con- 

 sidered as highly instructive and important. After 

 him, professor Bohadsch, of Prague, laboured much 

 to improve the history of this class of animals, and 

 with great success. Bohadsch was followed by M. 

 Cuvier, of France, who proposed a new arrange- 

 ment, and rendered considerable service to this 



* When Pv.eaumur 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 excellence. Fabricius 

 is a great technical or systematic entomologist 3 but he has done^ 

 comparatively speaking, little in regard to the physiology or phi- 

 losophy of the subject. In this point of view nothing has ap- 

 peared tliat will bear a comparison with the great work of 

 Reaumur. 



t The NaUcral History of the Rarer Lfpidopterous Insects of 

 Georgia, &c. 2 vols, folio^ 1798. 



