4:30 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. * 
it fell into the hands of Sir Theodore Mayerne, baron 
d’Aubone, one of the court physicians in the time of 
Charles I., who at length published it, prefixing a Dedi- 
cation to Sir William Paddy, baronet, M.D., in 1634; 
and it was so well received that an English translation ap- 
peared twenty-four years afterwards. The work thus re- 
peatedly rescued from destruction was indisputably the 
most complete entomological treatise that had then ap- 
peared. And though the arrangement (in which there is 
scarcely any attempt at system) is extremely defective, the 
figures very rude, often incorrect, and sometimes altoge- 
ther false, —yet as an introduction to the study of insects 
its value at that day must have been very considerable ; 
and as a copious storehouse of ancient entomological lore, 
it has not even at present lost its utility. 
One of the most remarkable works of the era we are 
upon was published at Lignitz in the year 1603, by 
Caspar Schwenckfield, a physician of Hirschberg, under 
the title of Theriotrophium Silesia. ‘This was probably 
the first attempt at a Mauna that ever was made. In it 
animals are divided into quadrupeds, reptiles, birds, 
fishes, and insects. The Crustacea, Mollusca, and Zoo- 
phytes, are included under fishes. He says of the Spon- 
gie that they are moved by animalcula which inhabit 
them?. Did he borrow this observation from Aristotle, 
or was it made by himself®? It is singular that Linné 
should never allude to this work. Goedart, who belongs 
also to this era, is stated to have spent forty years of his 
* Theriotroph, Siles. 455. > Aristotle (Hist. Anim. 
1, i. c. 1.) says, “ The sponge seems to have some sensation: as a 
proof, it is not easily plucked up, unless, so they say, the attempt is 
concealed.” 
