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on Fishes, remarkable for the beauty of its 

 coloured figures, and the great number of 

 the new species therein described; but this 

 branch is most indebted to Messrs. Lace- 

 pede, and Dumeril, and finally, to the Baron 

 himself. 



The immense class of insects, has proba- 

 bly given rise to the greatest number of re- 

 searches, and of works. To enumerate even 

 the titles would be impossible : we may men- 

 tion, however, the Fauna Etrusca of Rossi ; 

 the Suecica of Paykull ; a similar work on 

 the Insects of Germany, by M. Panzer ; the 

 Entomology of Switzerland, by M. Clair- 

 ville ; that of our country, by Marsham ; the 

 Insects of Guinea and America, by M. de 

 Beauvois. 



Among the descriptions of certain families 

 of the insect world, we may notice the butter- 

 fly, by Cramer, Angramelle, Esper, and espe- 

 cially Hiibner. The iconography of the hemip- 

 tera by Stoll, and of the Crustacea by Herbst. 

 The bees of England, by our countryman Mr. 

 Kirby, who, in conjunction with Mr. Spence, 

 has favoured the world with an excellent intro- 

 duction to entomology ; but on the subject of 

 bees, the labours of M. Huber, have, beyond 

 all others, claims to the highest attention ; nor 



