XIV LIST OF AUTHORS 



Hist. Soc., for the last half-century a collector of British 

 insects : author of Entomological Notes and papers in 

 the Entom. Mag., Mag. Nat. Hist., Ann. and Mag. N. H., 

 and in The Zoologist. 



DALMAN, Johann Wilhelm, a Swede, author of " Forsok til 

 systematisk uppstallning af Sveriges Fjarilar," and many 

 other papers in the Vet. Akad. Handl. between the years 

 1816-27 : of " Aarsberattelse om nyare Zoologiska 

 Arbeten och Upptacktar " (Stockholm, 8 vols., 1821-28), 

 and " Analecta Entomologica " (1823). 



DESVIGNES, Thomas, of Woodford, Essex, a collector of Coleo- 

 ptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera (particularly Ich- 

 neumonidae) : author of " Notes on the Genus Peronea " 

 and other communications to The Zoologist, of papers in 

 The Entomologist, The Entom. Mag., Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., and of the " Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae 

 in the Collection of the British Museum" (1856). 



DONOVAN, Edward, born about 1770, author of "Natural 

 History of British Insects" (London, 16 vols., 1792- 

 1803), "Epitome of Nat. Hist, of Insects of New Holland, 

 and the Islands of the Indian, Southern, and Pacific 

 Oceans" (1803), "Nat. Hist, of Insects of China" (1798), 

 "Epitome of Nat. Hist, of Insects of India" (1800-4). 

 But it was not to Entomology alone that Donovan di- 

 rected his attention : he published a " Natural Historv 

 of British Birds" (1792-97), "Nat. Hist, of Br. Shells" 

 (1799), "Nat. Hist, of Br. Fishes" (1808), and "Nat. 

 Hist, of Br. Quadrupeds " (1823), together with other 

 works. Though he laboured so much in the cause of 

 science, he died in destitute circumstances in 1837. 

 Donovan's fame as an Entomologist must rest entirely 

 on his artistic merits and his wonderful skill in colours. 

 Some of his figures (in the early impressions of his 

 works), such for instance as Curculio regalis, Papilio 

 Ulysses, &c., are perfect gems of colour. His drawings 

 for Rees's Cyclopaedia were indeed exhibited in public. 

 Elsewhere, however, we must look for scientific detail. 

 He was, in fact, incapable of appreciating the growth of 

 science, as developed by Latreille, Leach, &c., during the 

 first forty years of the present century; and amongst 

 his unpublished MSS., preserved in the Hopeiaii Library, 

 are many invectives, especially against Leach, as well as 

 Haworth, whom he always regarded with the jealousy of 

 a rival. His copy of the "Lepidoptera Britannica" of 

 Haworth, also in the Hopeian Library, is full of once 

 bitter, but now amusing remarks against his adversary. 



