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Authors whohavewritten profelTedly 

 on infects are very few ; the laft fifty 

 years have produced nearly double the 

 number of all the preceding ages ; and 

 when they began to be treated of fyfr.e- 

 matically, fcarce any branch of natural 

 hiftory had more cultivators, or was 

 purfued with more ardour ; among 

 others may be reckoned Linnseus, 

 Reaumur, De Geer, Roefel, Wilkes, 

 Admiral, Clerk, Ehret, Seba, Harris, 

 Poda, Scopoli, Shultzer, Geoffroy, 

 Gronovius, and Schaeffer. Whereas at 

 the commencement of the laft century 

 we had not dne treatife entirely Ento- 

 mological : but about that period this 

 fcience began to be cultivated; its pro- 

 grefs however was very flow, 'till fome 



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