SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT. 101 



any particular term numbers being in most cases 

 more simple and less liable to mislead. 



Rejecting then the more recent and partially 

 fashionable systems as hypothetical, that of Fabii- 

 cius as complex and unnecessarily difficult, and that 

 of Linnaeus as wanting the grand requisite of dis- 

 tinctness, I think I cannot propose a better than that 

 of the distinguished Swedish naturalist, Baron De 

 Geer, from whose magnificent work on insects, pe- 

 rused with avidity in my younger days, I derived that 

 taste for the study which increases with every coming 

 year. In giving an outline of this system, I shall use 

 the liberty of making a few slight alterations, which I 

 think will render it more easy in assisting beginners to 

 arrange the insects which they may collect, or may 

 wish to study. 



