4.26 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
From him we learn incidentally that artificial flies were 
sometimes used by Grecian anglers?*.. ; 
2. The Era of the Revival of the Science. From the 
time of Pliny and Aélian 1400 years rolled away, in which 
scarcely any thing was done or attempted for Entomology 
or Natural History in general. During that long night 
the glimmer of only one faint luminary appeared to make 
a short and feeble twilight. In the middie of the thir- 
teenth century Albertus Magnus (so called from his fa- 
mily name of Groot, and justly, if incredible labour 
could entitle a man to the appellation,) devoted one out 
of twenty-one folio volumes to Natural History. In this 
work he professes not so much to give his own opinions, 
as those of the Peripatetic philosophers®. He occasion- 
ally, however, relates the result of observations made by 
himself, which prove him to have been no inattentive 
student of nature. He mentions a voyage that he made 
for the purpose of collecting marine animals, and that 
he found of them ten different tribes or genera, and se- 
veral species of each. Amongst these he particularizes 
the Cephalopoda, the Crustacea, the testaceous Mollusca, 
and some of the Radiata and Acrita, &c.* He gives 
a very correct account of the pitfalls of Myrmeleon. In- 
sects he distinguishes, excluding the Crustacea, by the 
denomination of Anulosa (Annulosa), which he appears 
to employ as a known term‘’. He also calls them 
worms, describing butterflies as flying worms, flies as fly- 
worms, spiders as spider-worms; and what is still more 
extraordinary, the toad and the frog, which he includes 
amongst his Anzlosa, he calls quadruped-worms®! | Though 
* De Natur. Animal. 1. xv. c. 1. > Opera vi. 683. 
* Ibid. 153—. % Ibid. 154, 233, 265, &c. © Tbid, 676, 679, 680. 
