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ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. 
so speak) from the books of the two Hubers on the Bees and the Ants. The 
impression was so great, that thereafter we read with interest what one does 
not usually read continuously, Reaumur’s six quarto volumes of Memoires —an 
immortal book, which must always be a standard authority. Neither the 
contemptuous reaction of BufFon, nor the anatomical works, of superior exact¬ 
ness on special points, which have since been produced, should cause it to be 
forgotten. Reaumur was, as it were, the central point of our studies, and 
from him we went back to the illustrious masters of the seventeenth century, 
Swammerdam and Malpighi; next, we descended to those of the eighteenth, 
the Lyonnets, Bonnets, and Geers; finally, to our modern writers, Latreille, 
Dumeril, Lepelletier, Blanchard,—to the fertile and audacious school of the 
Geoffrey Saint-Hilaires and the Audouins, gloriously supported by Ampere 
and Goethe. While profiting by the noble treatises which sum up the main 
results of the science, like those of Lacordaire, we by no means neglected the 
admirable monographs of the present century,—those of Leon Dufour (scattered 
through the Annales des Sciences Naturelles , and other collections), the grand 
work of Walckenaer on the Spiders, the colossal labour of Strauss on the 
Cockchafer—a monument of the first class, which can only be compared to 
Lyonnet’s treatise on the Caterpillar. As for details drawn from travellers, 
we shall hereafter have an opportunity of referring to them. We shall also 
acknowledge our debt to foreign writers,—to Kirby, Smeathman, Lund, and 
others. For the anatomy of the insect, as for general anatomy, we cannot too 
strongly recommend the admirable and usefully enlarged specimens prepared 
by our excellent master, Dr. Auzoux. 
NOTE 3.—Book i., Chap. iii. 
On Insect Embryos , Invisible Animalcules , Infusorias as the Predecessors or 
Forerunners of the Insect , Ac. —The work of the vermets has been observed, in 
Sicily, by M. de Quatrefages.—As for the microscopic fossils, the infusorias, 
&c., their great coup de theatre has been Ehrenberg’s discovery. See his 
Memoires in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles , Second Series, vols. i., ii., 
