428 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
the writings of Aristotle, Invertebrate animals not being 
then even honoured with 
<A local habitation and a name.” 
This unpromising and apparently hopeless state of the 
science proved, however, the dawn of its present meridian 
brightness. 
The first attempt at a separate and systematical ar- 
rangement of insects subsequent to the times of Aristotle, 
was made in the ponderous volumes of Ulysses Aldro- 
vandus, who, disregarding the Stagyrite, arranged in- 
sects according to the medium they inhabit, as you will 
see in the subjoined table: 
Insecta 
Mémbra Favifica. 
Anelytra nacea Non Fa- 
[ AJata i Taannee vifica 
{ Pedata 3 L Elytrota. 
c Terrestria laa Paucipeda. 
| Apoda. ! Multipeda. 
5 F Paucipeda. 
Pedata ...... ; ianede 
Aquatica 
| 
LApoda. 
This artificial and meager system, which mixed insects 
with Annelida, was adopted by Charlton and other au- 
thors; and even in the eighteenth century had a patron 
of great eminence, who, endeavouring to improve upon 
it, has rendered it still more at variance with nature and 
Aristotle: I mean the celebrated Vallisnieri, to whom 
in other respects, though in this he fell behind his age, 
the science was under great obligations. He divides 
insects into, 1. Those that inhabit vegetable substances 
