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celebrity. Born 24th of May, 1707, at Roeshult in Sweden, and 

 distinguished as the founder of modern Zoological Classification 

 and Nomenclature. His Avorks appeared in succession from 1 735 

 to 1770, each being advantageously remodelled. His Systema 

 Naturae, in which all the animals, plants, and minerals with which 

 the author was acquainted, and his Fauna Sueciae, in which the 

 animals of Sweden were described, are most constantly cited. 

 Of the former work twelve editions appeared in the lifetime of the 

 author; the last of which was published in 1766, and which is 

 considered as his most valuable work. 



LvoNNET (Pierre). — Author of one of the most elaborate trea- 

 tises ever published, bearing the title of " Traite de la Chenille qui 

 rouge le Bois de Saule," in which the anatomy of the larva of the 

 goat-moth (Cossus Ugniperda) is described and illustrated in the 

 most complete manner. It was published in 1760, in one volume, 

 4to, containing 615 pages and 18 plates. The anatomy of the 

 pupa and imago, but in a comparatively imperfect state, have been 

 lately pubhshed. 



MacLeay (Wm. Sharp). — Author of the Horae Entomologicse, 

 a most remarkable and profound treatise, in which the relations of 

 animals are treated upon in a peculiar manner. The work also 

 contains a classification of the Lamellicorn beetles. He has also 

 published the first part of the Annulosa Javanica, containing a 

 portion of the Coleoptera collected in Java by Dr. Horsfield, (whose 

 Lepidoptera Javanica may be considered as a continuation of the 

 same work), as well as the first part of the Annulosa of Dr. Smith's 

 Travels. 



Macquart (Mons. J.). — A French entomologist, who has con- 

 fined his attention to the dipterous insects, and has published nu- 

 merous Memoirs upon those found in the North of France, in the 

 Transactions of the Natural History Society of Lille. Likewise 

 two volumes, containing A General System of Dipterology, with 

 plates, in the series of works termed Suites a BufFon. 



Marsham (Tbomas). — Author of Entomologia Britannica 

 (London, 1802), of which only the first volume, containing the 

 Coleojjtera of Great Britain, was published. Being, in consequence 

 of the ditficulty of intercourse with the continent during the war, 

 unacquainted with the labours of his contemporaries, many of the 

 species which he described had previously received names, so that 

 those which he proposed have been rejected. 



Meigen (J. W.) — A German author, who has confined his at- 

 -tention to the dipterous insects of Europe, which he has carefully 

 described in his Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten Europ. 

 Zweiflug. Insekten. Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818, 6 vols. 8vo. During 

 the autumn of 1836, he exhibited to me a complete series 



