I08 NATURAL HISTORY. 



works are : ( i ) The ' General Synopsis of Birds,' in eight 

 volumes, small quarto, 1781. (2) The ' Index Ornitho- 

 logicus,' in two volumes quarto, 1790. (3) 'A General 

 History of Birds,' in eleven quarto volumes, 1821-26. 

 This last is little more than an enlarged edition of the 

 1 General Synopsis.' 



Insects have always been a favourite branch of study, 

 and the names of Drury, Smeathman (who gave the 

 first good description of termites), and Moses Harris 

 are familiar to all entomologists. Drury, who was a 

 wealthy jeweller in London, was a great collector of 

 insects, though in no sense himself a naturalist. He 

 sent Smeathman to Africa to collect insects for his 

 cabinet, and he published a work on exotic insects, in 

 which the plates were executed by Moses Harris. This 

 last-named naturalist was an excellent artist, and ento- 

 mologists still use his * Aurelian, or Natural History of 

 English Butterflies and Moths.' He also published an 

 * Exposition of English Insects.' 



In general zoology the two most noticeable of the 

 names of this period are Edward Donovan and Dr George 

 Shaw, both of whom were voluminous writers, though 

 neither left any permanent mark in the science of natural 

 history. Donovan's principal works form a series of 

 thirty-eight octavo volumes (1792-1818), dealing respect- 

 ively with British quadrupeds, British birds, British fishes, 

 British shells, and British insects. He also published 

 ' Illustrations of Entomology, including the Insects of China, 

 India, and New Holland,' in three volumes (1805), and 

 'The Naturalist's Repository, or Miscellany of Exotic 

 Natural History,' in five volumes (1834). All his works 



