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MEMOIR OP 
Hague, ivliicli is the only one to which we have 
had access, the title is as follows, — “ Dissertatio do 
generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surina- 
mensium ; in qua, pneter vei-mes et enicas Surina- 
inenses, earumque admirandam raetamorphosin, 
plant®, flores et fimctus, quibus vescuntur, et in 
quibus fuerunt invent®, exhibentur. His adjun- 
guntur Bufoncs, Lacerti, Serpentes, Arane®, aliaque 
adniiranda istius regionis oniinalcula, omnia nianu 
ejusdem Matron® in America ad vivum accurate 
depicta et nunc aeri incisa. Accedit appendix 
transformationum Pisciuin in Eanas, et Ranarum 
in Pisces.” At the time of its publication, this was 
justly considered a magnificent volume, far sur- 
passing any illustrated work previously devoted to 
this tribe of animals. The dimensions of the plates 
— of that description which is technically called atlas 
folio — allowed most of the objects to be represented 
in their natural size; and as many of the most 
beautiful and striking are selected, they form a series 
of as shewy and imposing pictures as can well be 
conceived. Many of the figures, both of plants and 
animals, are delineated and coloured ndth great 
elegance and accuracy ; but this commendation can 
by no means be extended to the whole, or even the 
larger proportion of them. The author is frequently 
led into serious errors, by having but an imperfect 
acquaintance with the objects of her study, and 
she is far from being free from the bad taste of the 
period, in occasionally placing her figures in fanciful 
and unnatural positions. In this respect, some of 
