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work, the Doctor died, and the unfinished 

 manuscripts were purchased at a considerable 

 price by MOUFFET, a contemporary English 

 physician of singular learning, who with 

 great labour and at great expense arranged, 

 enlarged, and completed the work. When 

 nearly ready for the press, he also died; and 

 the papers, after lying buried in dust and 

 obscurity for several years, at last fell into the 

 hands of SIR THEODORE MAYERNE (Baron 

 (FAubone\ a court physician in the time of 

 Charles the First, who gave them to the world 

 in 1634?. The arrangement of this work is 

 defective ; but for the period in which it was 

 written, it is a very complete and respectable 

 Treatise on Entomology. It was highly re- 

 commended by Haller; and as a storehouse 

 of ancient entomological lore it has not yet 

 lost its utility. Its pages are embellished 

 with nearly 500 wood-cuts. An English 

 translation of it was published in 1658. 



According to Fabius Columma, PRINCE 

 FREDERIC CESI, president of the Roman 

 Academy of Sciences, wrote a treatise upon 

 bees ; but the work has not been preserved, 

 and we are unacquainted with its merits. 



