HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 449 
During this era, and by the influence of Linné, in the 
year 1739 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm 
was established, which did for Natural History in Swe- 
den what our own Royal Society had done for it in Eng- 
land, Other societies, with a similar object, were form- 
ed in different parts of Europe, and were attended by 
similar good effects. At Paris, at Berlin, at St. Peters- 
burg, at Moscow, at Turin, at Lisbon, &c., the lovers 
of Nature, at that time and subsequently, have asso- 
ciated for this purpose; and I may mention here, that I 
may not revert to the subject, the great Natural History 
association of our own country, the Linnean Society, 
named after the illustrious Swede, which was first insti- 
tuted in 1788, and incorporated by royal charter in 
1802. In the Zransactions of this learned body, the Zoo- 
logist in general, and particularly the Entomologist, will 
_ find much useful information and many interesting ob- 
servations connected with his science. ‘This flourish- 
ing society consists at this time of above 600 members, 
of whom more than 500 are Fellows ;—a gratifying proor 
how widely Natural History is cultivated in the British 
Empire. 
5. Era of Fabricius, or of the Maxillary System.— We 
are now arrived, if its consequences be considered, at 
one of the most important epochs of the science. Fa- 
bricius, a pupil of Linné, who highly estimated his en- 
tomological acquirements*, thinking that the system of 
his master was not built upon a foundation sufficiently 
fixed and restricted», conceived the idea of doing for 
@ Linné is recorded to have said, “Si Dominus Fabricius venit cum 
aliquo Insecto, et Dominus Zoega cum aliquo Musco, tunc ego pileum 
detraho et dico: Estote doctores mei.” Stoever’s Life of Linneus. 
186. b Fab. Philos. Entomolog. Pref. 
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