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awakening in our own country. The first zoological work 

 ever printed in England is the ' Theatre of Insects' by 

 Moufet,* of date 1634, a translation of which into the 

 vernacular was published twenty-five years later by Edward 

 Topsel. We append an accurate copy of one of the 

 woodcuts of this curious old work, the one selected 

 representing the Cicada. 



The first work which treated specially of the native 

 animals and plants of Britain is the ' Pinax Rerum Natura- 

 lium Britannicarum ' of Christopher Merret, published in 

 1667. This, in addition to animals and plants, embraced 

 fossils also; but it is nothing more than a sort of cata- 

 logue or enumeration of the animals and plants known 



* ' Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum, olim ab Edoardo Wottono, 

 Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum : tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinatis, 

 opera sumptibusque maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: et ad vivum expres- 

 sis iconibus illustratum. Londini ex officina typographic^ Thorn. Cotes,' 1634. 



