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of Moutpellier, (i^) by Angelinus, (i^) and by Bertaldi. 

 Theodosius, also a learned doctor, in his " Letters on Medicine," 

 devotes one to Glow-worms, (^i) The second class, which contains 

 histories of countries, includes Castaqueda's large " History of 

 Oriental India," (~~) which mentions certain insects, and Schwenk- 

 feeld's " Theriotrophium," {^^) in which, according to the title, the 

 " nature and use of certain animals, birds, insects, &c., are set forth." 

 In the class in which we rank works on Natural History in general — 

 No. 3 — we find several works appearing about this time. The first in 

 chronological order is the work of Scaliger, in fifteen books, 

 which contains cantharides, bees, silkworms, and locusts. Next comes 

 the large folio Nat. Hist, of Feeraxte Imperato, (^^) and the same 

 year we find that most important work on the same subject by Ulysses 

 Aldrovaxdus, published in folio at Bologna (^6). Vol. iv. of this 

 tremendous achievement, which appeared a.d. 1604, contains seven 

 books on insects, which recapitulate all that had previously been 

 written on the subject; the letter-press is supplemented by very 

 numerous illustrations, making it altogether a most important work — 

 not, however, a separate publication like Muffet's, but merely a single 

 volume of a more comprehensive work. In the year 1605 Glusius 

 (who, as we gather from hints in Muffet's work, was no mean 

 entomologist, and himself a personal friend of Muffet's) published a 

 " History of Exotic Animals and Plants." (^7) This author, whose 

 descriptions are remarkable for exactness and elegance, is most 

 generally known to the scientific world as the delineator, in the work 

 mentioned above of that curious and now extinct bird, the dodo. In 



(18) Demonstration des ingredients qui entrant dans la confection de rAlchermes ; 

 in 12mo, MontpeL, 1G09 and 1614. 



(19) De verme admirando per nares egresso ; Eavenae, 1610. 



(20) Confectio de Hyacintho et confectio alchermes, in 4to, Taurinii, 1613-19. 



(21) " De Lampyridae " in his Epistol. Medic, ep. 50, p. 305 ; in 8vo, Bale, 1553, 

 He also mentions insects in an epistle, "Quid sit Yerticellus, Polypus, Cochlea. 

 Spondylus," Epistol. Medic, ep. 17, p. 48. 



(22) Historia dell' Indie orientale (translated from the Spanish by A. Ylloa), 

 7 vols. 4to, Yenezia, 1578. 



(23) Theriotropheum Silesiae, in quo animalium, quadrupedum, reptiKum, avium, 

 piscium, insectorum natura, vis et usus sex libris perstringunter ; 4to, Lignicii, 1603 

 and 1604. 



(24) Exoticarum exercitationem liber XY. de subtilitate H. Cardan ; in 4to, 

 Paris, 1557 ; 8vo, Bile, 1560, &c. (often reprinted); "De Cantharidibus — de sub. 

 ex, 1S4, p. 605; " De Apibus, Bombycibus et melle vesparum " — de sub. ex. 191, 

 p. 623 ; " De Locustis "— de sub, ex. 192, p. 625. 



(25) DeU' Historia Xaturale libri 28 ; in foL, Napoli, 1599, and other editions. 



(26) Historia Xaturalis, 13 vols, in fol. Bimonice, 1599, and following years (best 

 edition) ; in fol. Bunon., 1602 ; in fol. Franckfort, 1623; in fol. Bunon., 1638. 



(27) Exoticarium libri decern quibus animalium, plantarum, etc., historise descri- 

 buntur ; in fol. Antverpife, 1605. 



