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ENTOMOLOGY. 



In 1675, a tract on the natural history of the E/ihe- 

 mera horaria, by S wamrnerdam, appeared, entitled, E/ihe- 

 meri Vita of afbeeldingk van 's menschen leven, ventoont 

 in de Historie van het uligent cnde e en-dag hie vent Haft 

 of Oever-aas. 



And in the same year, an elementary tract by George 

 Belcrio, printed at Upsal, Teg) -rZt tnoftui. 



About the same time, also, by Samuel Bochart, a work 

 entitled, Hierozoicon, sive bifiartitum ofius de animalibus 

 Sanctis Scri/itura. 



In 1676, some additions to Claude Perrault's work 

 were published. 



In 1679, Madame Maria Sybilla Merian, vel GrHffinn, 

 produced the first part of her work, " Der Raufien nuun- 

 derbare verivandelung and sonderbare blumen-nahrung," 

 which relates principally to European lepidopterous in- 

 sects. The authoress was a native of Frankfort on-the 

 Maine, wife of John Andrew Gi'ainnn. In early life, she 

 imbibed a taste for the study of insects, from being oc- 

 cupied at times in painting these objects as ornaments to 

 her flower-pieces. The task of painting insects she per- 

 formed with tolerable accuracy ; yet there is " a pecu- 

 liar exuberance of style incompatible with any faithful 

 resemblance of nature." Many of her original drawings 

 are preserved in the British Museum as specimens of 

 her style. 



In 1 680 was published, Johannis Jacobi Wagncri, 

 Historia Mituralis Helvetia curiosa. Figure. 



In 1681, Grew published his Museum Regalis Socie- 

 tatis ; being a catalogue and description of the natural 

 and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society of 

 London, preserved in Gresham college. London. Folio. 



In the same year, an English translation of Swammer- 

 dam's Efihemeri Vita was produced in London, and a 

 French translation in Paris. 



In 1682, a book entitled Johannes Godartius of In- 

 sects, done into English, and methodised, with the addi- 

 tion of notes, the figures etched in cofifier by Mr P. Fib, 

 was published at York. It is supposed to have been 

 translated by Lister; the initials M. L. are at the close 

 of the address " to the reader." The impression, as we 

 learn from the preface, consisted of one hundred and fifty 

 copies, which were intended merely for the curious ; and 

 the notes are copious. 



In 1682, Hoppis published a dissertation on the Gryl- 

 lus migratorius. 



In 1683, the second part of Merian's Der Raufien, &c. 

 appeared. 



In 1685, the first Latin edition of Swammerdam's 

 work was printed in Lyons, under the title, Historia 

 Generalis inscctorum, Latinam fecit H. C. Hennius. 



In this year also, Lister's Latin edition of Goedart, 

 entitled, J. Goedartius de Insectis in mcthodum rrdac- 

 tus, cum notularum additiSne, o/iere M. Lister, in octavo, 

 appeared in the Latin language. The author distributes 

 the materials into a new form of arrangement, the merits 

 of which arc too obvious not to be considered as an im- 

 provement on the original production. He divides them 

 into ten sections, as follow. 



1. Those with erect wings, and angulated pupae. But- 

 ter/lies. 



2. Those with their wings placed horizontally, and 

 which proceed from caterpillars, called geometre by 

 Goedart, from their gait. Moths. 



3. Those with deflexed wings. Moths. 



4. Libellula, or dragon flies. 



5. Sees. 



6. Beetles. 



7. Grasho/i/ters. 



8. Difiterous, or two-winged flies. 



9. Millefiedes. (Now Crustacea.) 



10. S/iiders. (Now Arachnides.) See the article Cnus\ 



TACEOLOGY. 



Although we readily allow Lister the credit due for 

 this arrangement, yet we cannot avoid expressing our 

 regret for his remarks on the original author, to whom 

 he allows neither credit as a naturalist nor as a writer. 

 He highly praises his skill as a painter ; but says, " Go- 

 edart, after forty years attention, seems to have made 

 but little advancement in his skill in the nature of in- 

 sects ; he rather seems to have diverted himself, than to 

 have given himself any trouble to understand them ; and 

 yet after all, you will find him everywhere just and cor- 

 rect, but in many places short and hardly intelligible." 

 These opinions are delivered in a style of affected superio- 

 rity over his author, highly unbecoming and not strictly 

 true ; and he gained no reputation on the continent for 

 these illiberal remarks, which were much condemned. 



Also, hy the same author, A/ifiendix ad historiam ani- 

 malium Anglite. London. Octavo. 



In 1687, Leeuwenhoek published his Anatomia seu in- 

 tcriora rerum, cum animafarum turn inanimatarum, ofie et 

 beneficio exquisitissimorum microsco/iorum detecla. 



In the same year, Geyereus wrote a treatise on the 

 medicinal properties of Spanish flies, (cantharides,) un- 

 der the title, Tractatus fihysico-medicus de cantharidi- 

 bus. 



Also by J. F. Griendel, at Neuremberg, in quarto, 

 Microgra/ihia Nova, in which some notice is taken of 

 insects. 



In 1688 was published an Italian edition of Redi's 

 Ex/ierimenta circa Generationem Inscctorum, entitled, 

 Exfierienze intorno alia Generazione drgl' Insetti. 



In this year also, Stephen Biankaart of Amsterdam, 

 published a work, Schon Berg der Ru/isc?i, Warmer, Ma- 

 den en vlirgcnde Dierlcens daar uil voort-kommende. 

 The author was a physician, who devoted much time to 

 collecting insects. The plates are admirably executed ; 

 but the work in other respects bears but an indifferent 

 character. Frisch and Lyonet consider it but a superfi- 

 cial production. It treats of the larvae of various insects, 

 and a few perfect insects are also noticed. Another edi- 

 tion was published at Leipsic in 1690. 



John Cyprien also published at Frankfort, Historia 

 Animalium, in the same year, in which insects are no- 

 ticed. 



About this period, two papers on insects appeared, 

 one by John de Muralto, the other by C. Mentzelius. 



In 1690, Bilberg published at Upsal a dissertation en- 

 titled, Locusts. 



And in the same year, Konig's Regnum Animate. 



In this year also, Stephanos Biancaul published in oc- 

 tavo, at Leipsic, Schon-bcrg der Rux/ien, JVormen, Ma- 

 den. 



In 1691, Historia Vcrmium, by Jungius, was printed 

 at Hamburgh. 



In 1692, in the Memoirs of the French Academy, we 

 find a curious paper, by Sedileatl, entitled, Observations 

 sur I'origine d'un ci/iece de Pafiillon, (which treats of <SVz- 

 turnia jiavonia major.) 



