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lected more than twenty years, and had 
begun to collect about his twelfth year ; 
he must, therefore, have been born about 
the year 1734. His uncle, Moses Harris, 
gave him his first instruction in Ento- 
mology: he was a member of the old 
Society of Aurelians, which met at the 
Swan Tavern, in Change Alley, and 
Harris regrets that his youth prevented 
his admission as a member, and the 
more so as during the great fire in Corn- 
hill the collection and books of the 
Society were burnt, and the members, 
who were then sitting, had to escape 
suddenly, many leaving their hats and 
canes. The Society, after this misfortune, 
was not again reconstituted for fourteen 
years. 
Moses Harris was a copper-plate 
engraver, and furnished the plates for a 
number of works, especially Drury’s. 
Harris’s own first work is “The Aure- 
lian, or Natural History of English In- 
sects, namely, Moths and Butterflies, 
together with the plants on which they 
feed. London : printed for the Author, 
1766.” Folio; 10 pages of dedication 
and preface, pp. 77 ; pi. 41 coloured. 
Of this first edition I have examined 
a beautifully coloured copy in Stalnton’s 
(formerly in Stephens’) library. After- 
wards Harris published an Appendix, 
which, according to an announcement in 
his ‘ Pocket Companion ’ of 1775, was 
sold separately. This Appendix is bound 
up with the copy in the British Museum ; 
it contains four plates, and amongst them 
a plate of dissections without a num- 
ber, a table of terms, index, trivial 
names and text pages 77 — 80, p. 77 
being reprinted and the postscript “ The 
End” left out. 
Cobres, in Delic. Cobr. t. i., p. 359, 
describes his edition precisely as above, 
but assigns to it text in English and 
French. I have only seen it with 
English text ; probably Cobres’ notice is 
erroneous. 
The second edition, according to Per- 
cheron and Engelmann, p. 534, appeared 
in 1778, with 46 plates (this would be 
including the frontispiece and plate of 
dissections); text in French and English. 
I believe this is the edition which is 
contained in Hope’s library; unfortu- 
nately the title-page is wanting. Text 
pp. 145, in English and French; 44 
coloured plates. 
The third edition is in the library of 
the Entomological Society of London. 
London : Edwards, 1794 ; fol. ; 44 plates, 
besides the frontispiece and plate of dis- 
sections; pp. 15 preface, 90 text, and 
4 index, in English and French, in 
double columns. 
As is well known, Westwood re-edited 
the work in 1841. The original plates, 
according to Mr. Westwood’s notice, are 
in the possession of Mr. William Knight, 
of Islington. 
It is probable the ‘ Aurelian ’ originally 
appeared iu numbers, as I find a notice 
that, in 1765, 14 plates had appeared, 
and this is recorded in Gottingen gel. 
Anz. 1765, p. 567. 
2. “ An Essay preceding a Supplement 
to the ‘ Aurelian,’ wherein are considered 
the Tendons and Membranes of the 
wings of Butterflies, &c. London : 
Author.” 4to., also with French title- 
page; pp. 12, 7 col. pi. (No date is 
given, but it must be before 1775.) 
This work must be very scarce, since 
of all the libraries I have examined 
I have only found it in the Banksian 
Library. Three of the plates are marked 
“Octob. 20, 1767.” The work is of 
interest as being the first attempt to 
classify Lepidoptera according to the 
neuration ; attention is also paid to the 
