CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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SECTION XV. 
Of the Infetls and Teftaceons Animals of Lapland. 
OINCE Dr. Quenzel’s travels in Lapland, this country has fur- 
nifhed many interefting objects to the entomologifts and col¬ 
lectors of infe&s throughout Europe. In the time of Linnasus 
there was not a fingle infect of the clafs lepidoptera known as in¬ 
digenous in Lapland ; and it is almoft incomprehenfible how the 
great phal<zn<e and papilios, that hunt the nectaries of thofe flowers 
which embellifh thefe northern diftricts, could have efcaped the 
fearching eye of fo attentive a naturalift. Dr. Quenzel difcovered 
feveral fpecies, and brought with him a great number of fpeci- 
mens, which were foon fcattered over Germany, and all coun¬ 
tries where thefe objects are efteemed and collected. It is an un¬ 
fortunate circumftance, however, that collections of that kind are 
often confidered as mere articles of fhow ; and that the entomolo¬ 
gies are frequently nothing more than walking inventories, that 
have their heads filled with a gothic mixture of Greek, Latin, 
and barbarous names. 
Entomology, when ftudied by a philofophical obferver, may 
become a purfuit of great importance to fociety, and lead to dis¬ 
coveries of effential benefit;, but while the zeal of entomologies 
confifts 
