to insect inclosures. The scattered allusions to amber insects, taken 
from older authors and published later than the seventeentli century, 
have in general been left unnoticed as -wholly valueless and uninterest- 
ing; but all others, where possible, have been introduced into the list in 
a more or less perfect form. The best notice of the early literature of 
amber will be found in Jjoehmer’s IMbl. Scrii>t. Hist. l!iat., 4, i, 468-477, 
8®. Lipsia^ 1788. 
The Index of Authors at the end contains over five hundred names. 
