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painters, prompted by a defire of em- 

 bellifhing their drawings of flowers, 

 delineated thereon fome of the moft 

 beautiful butterflies ; and thus it was 

 that Hoefnagel, Goedart, Robert, and 

 at length Albin, were allured to a con- 

 templation of infe&s. Swammerdam 

 was the firft who inveftigated the inte- 

 rior ftruclure of infe&s ; in which he 

 was fo amazingly dextrous, as to de- 

 monftrate the parts in the fmalleft ani- 

 mals with equal ciearnefs as in the 

 larger. In this the immortal Reau- 

 mur made a farther progrefs. Lady 

 Merianwasfo captivated with the ftudy, 

 as to fail from Holland to Surinam, 

 chiefly to enquire into and obferve the 

 metamorphofes of thofe exquiiitely nne 

 Butterflies, with which that country 

 particularly abounds, expofing herfelf 

 with her daughter to all the dangers of 



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