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were subsequently added, the last printed under the 
care of her youngest daughter. This work has been 
translated both into German and French, and there 
seems to be more than one edition of the oriinnal. 
That now before us is printed at Amsterdam, and 
the date, which appears only at the bottom of the 
frontispiece, is 1717- It forms a quarto volume, 
Miitten in Dutch, consisting of tlrree parts, mid 
containing one hmidred and fifty plates, besides 
ornamented frontispieces. Tlie objects represented 
are chiefly European lepidoptera, rvith their larvse, 
generally accompanied irith a figure of the plant 
on which the latter feed. A few coleopterous and 
dipterous species are occasionally introduced, and 
the pup® in most cases are likewise represented. 
Although the engraiing is rather coarse, and the 
drawing often faidty, these plates, upon the whole, 
afford not inaccuraterepresentations of a considerable 
number of insects, most of them in all their different 
stages ; and must have been a useful and even an 
elegant contribution to the entomology of the period, 
which was sufiiciently meagre both in descriptive 
and illustrated -works. The accompanring text, it 
is true, is not of much value ; but it must be home 
in mind, in estimating its merit, that this branch of 
natural histor}', as well as every other, was still in 
its infancy. The ponderous volumes of Ulysses 
Aldrovanus, the works of Gesner, Goediut, and a 
few others, who studied Aristotle more closely than 
they did nature, were almost the only accessible 
sources of information on the subject ; for the more 
