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lustigung, by Rosel of Nuremberg, a man of genius, by 

 profession a miniature painter. The work is in quarto. 

 Two other volumes appeared in 1749 and 1755. To 

 these a fourth volume was added by a relation (Klee- 

 mannir) after his death in 1761; and, since that period, 

 Klcemanuhus published three other parts. 



In 1747, a tract, explaining the advantages arising 

 from the study of insects, entitled Dissertatio de Usu 

 Cognilionis Insectorum, was published by C. F. Menan- 

 dcr. 



In the same year, William Gould published in Lon- 

 don, An account of English Ants. 



Also in Paris by Bazin, Abregi de VHistoire des In- 

 sectes, ftour servir de suite a I'Histoire JVaturetle des 

 Abeilles. 



In this year also was published in quarto, Adrian Gadd 

 Obsirvationes Physico-Economice, in sefitentrionali fira- 

 tura territorii sufierioris Satagundies collecta. Dissertalio 

 Preside C. F Menander, Aboae ; an interesting tract, 

 explaining the advantages arising from the study of na- 

 tural history. 



In this year, Theologic des Insectes de Lesser, avec 

 des remarques de Lyonnet, a la Haye, in two volumes 

 octavo, appeared, being a translation, with comments by 

 Lyonnet, of Lessor's Insccto-Theologia, published in 

 1738. 



Also Buzin Gillcs Augustin Abrtge de VHistoire des 

 Insectes fiour servir de suite a I'Histoire Naturelle des 

 Abeilles. Paris, in two volumes duodecimo. 



In 1748, was published in London, by J. Dutfield, six 

 numbers of a natural history of English moths and but- 

 terflies. 



And, in this year, T. C. Hoppe published two small 

 entomological tracts, as Antwort-Schreiben auf Hern 

 Schrcibers zweifel ; and Eichen-lVciden-und Doirosen. 

 The first at Gera; the second at Leipsic. 



In 1749, Linne published Ejusdem Sk'dnska Reset. 



And at Norembergh, J. M. Scligmann Avcs, adjectis 

 ex G. Edwardi Iconibus. Folio. 



In the same year, or perhaps earlier, the splendid 

 work of Benjamin Wilks, under the title of The Eng- 

 lish Moths and Butterflies, together with the Plants on 

 which they feed, and are usually found. The plates, 

 which appeared first, bear no date. In the third vo- 

 lume of RSsel's woik, Insecten Belustigung, we find 

 comments on this work, not to the credit of English en- 

 tomologists' in general, when the science ought, from 

 the labours of former writers, to have stood on very 

 high ground in this country, and the public judgment 

 to have been so far matured as to discover imposition. 

 Rosel, in the plainest terms, accuses our author of pi- 

 racy; and, when we reflect on the celebrity this work 

 has heretofore enjoyed as an original production, it cer- 

 tainlv attaches some little reproach to our naturalists, 

 that facts, so publicly asserted on the continent, should 

 have remained unknown to us. As the remarks are cu- 

 rious and interesting, we shall copy this part, translated 

 by a friend. « In the supplement, or third part of my 

 amusements of insects, I have mentioned a certain work 

 which Mr Wilks in London continues monthly, and 

 promised that I should take some opportunity of giving 

 a more circumstantial account. Since then the plates 

 amount to ninety, all of which I have examined with 

 great attention. They are as yet destitute of any de- 

 scription, which is, however, promised at some future 

 period. In the notice to these plates, he proft sscs to 

 have drawn them from life ; but, by those acquainted 

 with other works, it will readily be discovered that se- 

 veral are taken from Albin's worjt, from Merian's book, 



and many from my own. How far he has succeeded, I 

 leave to the judgment of others. An ape mimics every 

 thing, but does not always succeed. I may appear to 

 many too severe ; but let them consider that he counter- 

 feits the works of others, and gives them for his own. I 

 venture to assert, that in the future description of his 

 work, he will he careful not to mention the authors whose 

 works he has so unjustly robbed; for he already strives, 

 to conceal on his plates what he has copied from others, 

 by reversing the figures, or by giving them a different 

 position." Vol. iii. p. 192. 1749. The substance of these 

 remarks we are sorry to be under the necessity of allow- 

 ing to be true; for the eye of the artist will perceive, on 

 comparing the two publications, that Wilks has taken an 

 unlimited range through the first volume of Rosel. We 

 have repeated the remarks of Rosel at length, because 

 we wish to impress on the public mind the value and 

 importance of any general work, in preference to pro- 

 ductions of this nature. Wilks was also publisher of 

 Twelve new designs of Butterflies, in which the insects 

 are disposed in stars, festoons, circles, or other whimsi- 

 cal groups, forming what are usually denominated "but- 

 terfly pictures." The nature of the first work above 

 mentioned, is rather incorrectly stated in the title-page ; 

 for the plants on which the insects are grouped, are not 

 those which furnish their natural food; they consist of 

 gaudy flowers, auriculas, roses, monstrous varieties of 

 cultured plants, fruits, &c. the introduction of which, in 

 preference to their natural food, has incurred considera- 

 ble censure. 



In 1752, Dr Hill, in his History of Animals, published 

 in London in the year 1752, divides insects into three 

 classes: the first Afiteria, includes all insects without 

 wings ; the second Pteraria, is devoted to the winged 

 insects; the third Gymnanthridia, comprehends those 

 with soft and naked bodies. 



De Geer also in this year, published the first volume 

 of his invaluable work, Memoires fiuur servir a I'Histoire 

 des Insectes, at Stockholm, which was received with 

 every demonstration of praise to which its merits are 

 entitled. From the testimony of the author's merit af- 

 forded by this volume, the continuation was expected 

 with impatience; but nine years elapsed before the se- 

 cond volume appeared, and it was altogether twenty-six 

 years from its commencement to its termination. It was 

 completed in 1778, in which year the labours of its au- 

 thor closed with his life. He was author of several pa- 

 pers in various Transactions, which we shall notice in 

 their proper place. 



In this year also, Linne published two dissertations at 

 Upsal, Miracula Inseclorum, and jYoxa Insectorum. The 

 latter of these is very valuable, from the object in the 

 contemplation of the author; and the first is not destitute 

 of merit. 



Scopoli, in the year 1753, published his Entomologia 

 Carniolka, in which he distributes all the insects of which 

 he treats, into orders, genera, species, and varieties, 

 nearly after the manner of Linne. As a systematic work, 

 this publication is of little importance ; in other respects 

 it is valuable. 



In this year also, Nov a Insectorum S/iecies, Diss. 

 Prasid. Johanne Lecher. Rtsp. Isaaeus Uiklnian. Aboae, 

 quarto. 



In the year 1754, Kalm, a learned botanist, published 

 a paper on a species of Cicada, in the Swedish language ; 

 but we are unacquainted with its title. 



In 1756, in folio, Brown's Civil and Natural Historit 

 Of Jamaica. 



In 1757, F. Hasselquist's Iter Palccstinum, eller Rcsa 



