XX LIST OF AUTHORS 



torum/ and ( Syst. Piezatorum/ each in one vol., which 

 were published at this period. In the summer I went every 

 year to Paris, in order that I might see the large collec- 

 tions which Olivier had brought from Persia and the 

 East, Bauden from the South Sea, and those which other 

 persons had brought from Egypt ; and this summer I 

 expect the excellent Humboldt to return from S.America. 

 In the winter I always remained at Kiel to fulfil my 

 duties to the academy, and give lectures on Nat. Hist, 

 and Economics. . . . Such was my life, cherished by my 

 countrymen, although some of the higher ranks took 

 offence at my writings on politics. Beloved by the 

 learned abroad, I met on my travels everywhere with 

 the most friendly reception. A healthy body, a light 

 heart, and an easy mind raised me above many troubles. 

 Continual employment in my favourite science, which is 

 itself inexhaustible, but which I cultivated with great 

 pleasure, and not without success, kept up my ardour in 

 the pursuit, and diffused peace and happiness over the 

 whole course of my life." The Autobiography from 

 which these extracts have been taken was written in 

 1804 or 1805 : subsequently to this, Fabricius produced 

 several other works ; and his " Sy sterna Glossatorum " 

 appeared in Illiger's Magazine for 1807. The Fabrician 

 class Glossata is identical with the Linnsean Lepidoptera ; 

 and its name is derived from <y\&aaa, in allusion to the 

 long spiral tongue of the insects, the organs of the mouth 

 forming, as before stated, the basis of the Fabrician 

 classification. Swammerdamm and Ray classified insects 

 according to their metamorphoses ; Lister, Linne, Geof- 

 froy according to their organs of motion; Reaumur, 

 Scopoli, and Linne himself took cognizance of the 

 nutritive organs to characterize certain genera ; but Fa- 

 bricius was the first to apply this principle to a general 

 classification of the whole order Insecta, This esti- 

 mable man and great entomologist died at Copenhagen, 

 in 1807, according to most of the biographies; but Mr. 

 Westwood, in the " Entomologist's Text Book/' gives, 

 on the authority of Dr. Fabricius, the son of the ento- 

 mologist, 1747 as the date of his birth, and 1810 as that 

 of his death. He was buried in the cemetery of Kiel ; but 

 his remains are unmarked by any tombstone. 

 FISCHER, J. E., Edler von Roslerstamm, of Nixdorf in Bo- 

 hemia, author of "Abbildungen zur Berichtigung und 

 Erganzung der Schmetterlingskunde, besonders der 

 Mikrolepidopterologie, als Suppl. zu Treitschke's und 



