OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF 
entomology. 
iat S H 11 at any f0rmer , pwi0d - The due to tln S natu- 
But let [,s als™r S ? is S re at. This must be allowed, 
dation for the arrS!^ ls . not , alone entitled to our commen- 
ac knowledge the” meritTof 1 ',° pOSed ln hls ^ ork - We must in candour 
under circumstances of less J “ J aU, ° ng h,s predecessors, who wrote 
celled in this sdence- to ZhX ^ d ' U ' nevertheless «- 
very high degree indebted, and witW thTahfnf x°t SU “ u1 in a 
to imagine tJiq.qUcm, which now com man <U n ^ • ' s ! ra P osslble 
have been produced, at least in its present 2£ 
vandal fTSs Moufe T* ^ ^ ° f ^leola, AJdro- 
Vallis n i e ri, ^ ^d U vM^u^^hers W ^T' e t^ alI ^ , *“* Willu S% Lister, 
casional 4riauo” out i ’e "f P ercpive > ™th some oc’ 
“ Svsxema nSSLS-' C 8U P ersta «ture raised in the 
material ^ which h^sel't '? fbr “ ation furn ished him with abundant 
' vove with ahi%, indusm tnT -^gcnicm, and inter- 
commendable: he did not' si ft' u , ccess ' . Linne was in this respect 
casiou, from anv ! m t!v ,fior hls mmd to swerve on this oc- 
deemed it consistem ln , novaUll S motives; and so far as he 
the example^ htf W ‘ h h ‘ S > ,lan ’ he appears to have adhered to 
to he found u ° f sc t, characters of his Ordines a c 
7 e am his own, and so like! 
Species. But these u , ’ , a! <1 the *ar greater number of his 
indebted 1,7 1 ^ 2 [ 2 ^™ ‘° 
the concise and very expressive style which Linne 
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