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infeBa^ et conchy Ua defcribuntur et deter minantur pf6^^ 

 dromiinftar editum. Holm. 1764, 8% pp. 720. This 

 was drawn up, and publifhed, by order of the 

 'queen of Sweden^ who had conftrufted a copious 

 and rich cabinet of natural hiftory, at the palace 

 of Drottningholm ; the fubje6ls of which, as hath 

 been obferved, Linn/eus had been appointed to 

 arrange. The great expence her majefty had be- 

 ftowed in procuring, particularly infeds and fhells, 

 had given this colle6lion an advantage that proved 

 very favourable to our author, by throwing in his 

 way a multitude of fine and very expenfive objeds, 

 which otherwife, probably, he could have had no 

 opportunity of defcribing; and thefe were, for- 

 tunately, all coUeded before the publication of the 

 enlarged editions of the Syftem. 



In this work the exotic infeds and fhells only are 

 introduced ; of the former, 436 ; and of the latter, 

 434, with tv/enty-five of the Mollufca, The in- 

 feds chiefly confift of the large and beautiful 

 Lepidoptera and the Ihells abound with all their 

 elegant varieties. Thefe are defcribed at large, 

 with all that precifion, brevity, and accurate ar- 

 rangement of the feveral parts, which every where 

 manifefts itfelf fo happily in our author's writings. 

 Both in entomology and conchology a new language is 

 introduced ; and thefe defcriptions may well fland 

 as models for future writings. 



Annexed to this work is the fecond parr, or 

 rather only the prodromnsy of the Museum Adolphi 

 Frederici Regis, in quo animalia rariora^ imprimis et 

 exotica, aveSy amphibia, pifces defcribuntur, 1764.^ pp. 



110. 



