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sand. The number of new species of Insects dis- 

 covered at different periods of the century is pro- 

 digiously great. Before the time of Lin uncus, 

 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 

 twenti) thousand species. The same augnientatiun 

 has taken pluce with respect to the Venues, a class 

 which, in the hands of Ellis, Pallas, Muller, and 

 others before mentioned, has wonderfully enlarged 

 its bounds. 



Though America, 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, be- 

 fore mentioned, though not native Americans, re- 

 sided long in that country, and threw much light 

 on the animal kingdom, as it appears beyond 

 the Atlantic. Mr. Glover, a planter of Virgi- 

 nia, also communicated to the public some valu- 

 able information respecting American zoology*. 

 Mr. William Bartram, of Pennsylvania, an indefa- 

 tigable 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 adjacent terri- 

 tory f. Still more recently Dr. Barton, professor 

 of Natural History in the University of Pennsyiva- 



* The principal part of Mr. Glover's comrauiiications respect- 

 ing American zoology appeared in the Phibsoplucjl Transactions, 

 about the year 1/40. 



- t Trarels through North and South Carolina, Gcoi-'^la, East and 

 mst Florida, &c., from J 773 to 1778. 

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