86 C H A P T E R 6. 
infeds* There are letters witten by him 
to Camerarius, in the year 1585, 
preferved in Trew's colledtions, which 
prove his knowledge in entomology ^ to have 
heen exteniive in that day : and it is 
fuppofed by Schmiedel, that Gesner's 
drawings of Papilid's^ paffed into the hands 
of Penny. This fuppofition is rendered 
more probable, when it is recolleded, that 
the heat rum Injeciorum of Moufet, was 
a work begun by Dr. Edward Woo ton, 
Conraae Gesner, and Dr. Penny, and 
received only the finifhinghand from Mou- 
fet. 
Dr. Penny died in 1589, and is faid by 
Jungerman to have left his papers to 
Moufet and Turner; but, in this ac- 
count there is furely a very ftriking ana- 
chronifm, fince Turner himfelf died in 
the year i 568, 
M a P L E T. 
' John Maplet, mailer of arts, of Cam- 
bridge^ publiflhed in the year 1567, A 
Green Forest ^ or. Natural Hif- 
tory ; wherein may be feen, the fove- 
raien 
