XX11 LIST OF AUTHORS 



said to have been able to speak or write seventeen lan- 

 guages, and to have been well acquainted with almost 

 every department of literature ; while in natural history, 

 botany, and geology he was one of the first investi- 

 gators of the last century. 



FREY, Heinrich, a native of Frankfort-on-Main, now Pro- 

 fessor at Zurich ; author of " Ueber die in der Schweiz 

 beobachteten Arten des Genus Lithocolletis ; in den 

 Mittheilungen der Naturf. Gesellschaft in Zurich, 1855 ;" 

 " Revision der Nepticulen," in the llth vol. of " Linnsea 

 Entomologica ;" and of " Die Tineen und Pterophoren 

 der Schweiz" (Zurich, 1856), a work of which the 

 first English Micro-lepidopterist has said, " This volume 

 clearly establishes the reputation of Professor Frey of 

 Zurich as the first Micro-lepidopterist in Europe." 



FREYER, C. F., Stiftskassirer at Augsburg, author of " Bei- 

 trage aus dem Taschenbuch meiner europ. Schmett." 

 (Augsburg, 1827-30), " Neue Beitrage zur Schmetter- 

 lingskunde, mit Abbild. nach der Natur " (1831), 

 "Neuere Beitrage" (1832-52), and of "Die schad- 

 lichsten Schmett. Deutschlands, &c., nach der Natur 

 beobachtet, beschrieben und abgebildet." The trans- 

 formations of numerous species of Lepidoptera are very 

 fully illustrated in these excellent works. 



FRISCH, Johann Leonhard, born in 1666, educated at Nurem- 

 berg, travelled in France, Switzerland, Hungary, Turkey, 

 and Holland. Returning to Berlin, he was chosen Mem- 

 ber of the Acad. of Sciences in 1706, Rector of the 

 Prussian Society in 1726, and in 1731 appointed to direct 

 the Historico-philologico-germanic class in the Univer- 

 sity. He founded the silk-manufacture in Brandenburg, 

 and introduced the cultivation of the mulberry into 

 Prussia. His chief work is " Beschreibung von allerley 

 Insekten in Deutschland" (Berlin, 1720-38); this was 

 reprinted in 1766, and adorned with numerous plates : 

 the text gives the history of 300 insects, and describes 

 their curious habits and their metamorphoses. Besides 

 this, Frisch commenced a large work on German Orni- 

 thology (which was concluded by his son), and published 

 many philological works. He died in 1743. 



FROLICH, Dr. Franc. A. G., of Ellvangen, author of " Enu- 

 meratio Tortricum Wurtemburgiae " (Tubingen, 1828). 



FUESSLI, Johann Gaspard, born in 1745 at Zurich, was edu- 

 cated for an artist's life, but ultimately became a book- 

 seller and publisher in his native town. In 1775 he 

 printed a " Verzeichniss der ihm bekannten Schweizer- 



