THE RISE OF THE LITERATURE OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



By Willoughby Gardner. 



(Continued.) 



In the third class, the first book on the list is that of Peucer, 

 whose work on " Quadrupeds, Insects, &c.," was fii'st published at 

 Leipzig A.D. 1550, and went through many subsequent editions.^ 

 Next we find one of our own countrymen, the learned Dr. Wotton, 

 publishing at Paris, in 1552, a work on " Natural History,'"'' in 

 ten books, dedicated to King Edward VI. Dr. Wotton subse- 

 quently purchased Gesner's posthumous papers on insects, of which 

 I spoke above, from Joachim Kamerarius. Another writer, according 

 to Percherou, treats about this time of water insects, viz., Guillaume 

 RoNDELET, who published a large folio in 1554 at Lyon, on " Fishes, 

 &c."S I cannot say, not having seen the book, whether it contains 

 very much of note entomologically, but Rondelet had a great 

 knowledge of fishes — so much so, that his work has formed the 

 foundation of all subsequent ones on the same subject, and indeed it 

 is said that very little of importance has been added, since his work, 

 to the natural history of the fishes of the Mediterranean. In the 

 last class we find several small works on various species of insects 

 noticeable for their utility, their ravages, or otherwise. The first is 

 a small volume by Chr. Hagendrophinus (^), published a.d. 1526 ; 

 the next, in point of time, is by the Latin poet Marcus Hieronimus 

 ViDA, who was born at Cremona a.d. 1490 ; he wrote a long poem 

 on " The Culture and Use of the Silkworm," (}^) which was first 

 published at Rome in 1537, and went through as many as nine 

 subsequent editions, thus showing that there was no lack of interest 

 in the silkworm at that time. Then the bees have their turn, for 

 GiovANNK RucELLAi, an Italian, filled an 8vo volume with a poem 

 describing their economy, which was first published, after his death, 

 at Venice, a.d. 1539 Q^) ; this, like the last, was evidently a popular 

 work, for it went through five other editions, and we find it said by a 

 N. S., Vol. vi.— Sept., 1880. 



(6) Appellationes quadrupedum, insectomm, etc., etc., in 8vo. Lipsiae 1550, 

 Wittemburg, 1551, 1556, and 1558 ; Liepzig, 1559 and 1564, 



(7) De differentiis animalium libri decern ; in fol. Parisiis, 1552. 



(8) De piscibus marinis, tiniversae aquatiliiun historic pars altera (witli good wood 

 engravings) in fol., Lugduni, 1554-55, and a French translation in fol., Lyon, 1558. 



(9) DBclamatio in laudem ebrietatis et encomium Musceb, in 8vo. Hagenoae, 1526. 



(10) De Bombycis cura et usu, libri 2, in 4to, Eomae, 1537 ; in 8vo, Lugduni, 

 1537 ; in 8vo, Basil, 1537 ; in 12 mo, Antweq), 1585 ; in 8to, Cremona, 1560. 



(11) Apes, in 8vo, Venezia, 1539. 



