OF INSECTS IN GENERATE 3 ?I 
i'Kilid upon the fmall excrefcetices of plants and trees, he 
£ound himfelf obliged to confer a vivifying power, a kind 
of foul upon thofe vegetables where they were found, and 
has laid afide the ordinary mode of generation, whieh in 
other inilances he had laboured to eftabliih, 
Swammerdam was the contemporary of Rhedi ; and, 
like him, he pofleffed the courage to examine nature* and 
to think for himfelf. This naturalift made many anato- 
mical obfervations upon infefts, which after his death 
were publiihed at Leyden *, and laid the foundation of 
future improvements in entymology; About the fame 
period, Madame Marianne, a Dutch iady, contributed 
largely to bring the hiftory of infects into requeft, by the 
beauty of her paintings and drawings. After having ex- 
ecuted elegant drawings of feveral of the inf efts of Eu- 
rope, from a Angular avidity for -thefe ftudies, ihe was 
prompted to crofs the Atlantic, aud give paintings of thofe 
in America. Having refided for feveral years in Surinam 
in Sojith America, ihe returned to Europe with exquiiite 
drawings of many of the fplendid infects of that conti- 
nent, which were afterwards engraved and publiihed in 
Holland, about the end of laft century f. 
Goedart is another of the fit ft authors who adorned the 
hiftory of infefts with the labours of the pencil. He 
paid great attention to the metamorphofes of the animals, 
and has painted many of them in the leveral forms which 
they afl'ume, from their appearance till their death. His 
work was originally publiihed in German, very badly ar- 
Vol. III. S f ranged; 
* In the year 1737, under the title of Biblia Natural, 
f Her original drawings were purclwfed by Sir Hans Sloanc, and are 
s»w in the Britifu Mufeum. 
