Entomology

Eleaser Albin published, in London, " A Natural History of English Insects," with one hundred cop perplates, in one quarto volume.

In 1721, Bradley published in London,•" A Phi. losophical Account of the Works of Nature," which contains some entomological matter, • and a few en. gravinge of insects, 8vo.

In 1722, Opera Omuia Leuenhoekii.

Sir Hans Sloane published in London, in 1725, the second volume of his " Natural History of Ja mbs," the second book of -which treats of the in.

sects of that Wand, and is accompanied by several plates.

In 1726, Madam Merian published at the Hague, in large folio; " De Generation at Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium," the materials of which were collected by herself, or under her immediate direction, in Surinam, where she spent two years, for the sole purpose of forming a collection, and in taking drawings for this work; which is not, how ever, entirely devoted to Entomology, for, besides in. sects, we find plants, and various reptiles; as toads, lizards, serpents, &c. depicted.

In 1780, Valisnieri, in his " Esperienze et Obser. vationi intorno agli Insetti," distributes all insects into four groups, from the following characters: let, Those living on plants: 2dly, Those living in water: Sdly, Those living on the earth, or amongst stones: 4thly, Those which subsist on other animals.

Eleazre Albin, in 1731, published, in a quarto vo.

lame, " Insectorum Angle Historia Naturals illus. trate Iconibus in centum tabulis eneis eleganter ad vivum expressis," &c. which came out in London, and was esteemed an elegant work. It is more re markable for gaudiness than fidelity.

And, in the same year, in London, " Histoire Na. turelle de la Caroline, la Floride," Ate. per Marc Catesby, folio.

Reaumur published, in 1784, the first volume of his valuable " Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes," in Paris. The five succeeding volumes appeared between that time and 1742.

In the same year, the first volume of the cele• brated " Alberti Sebe, Loeupletissimi rerum Natu ralium Thesauri accurate descriptio, at Iconibus As tificiosissimis, Expressio Latins at Galilee," folio. The three succeeding volumes appeared before 1765.

In

1735, the celebrated Swedish naturalist, Lin. news published the first edition of his " Systems Nature, sive Regna tria Nature systematice pro. posits per Classes, Ordines, Genera at Species," in which work he distributes insects into four orders, according to the number and form of their wings, under the names, 1. CoLzorreas, or insects with covered wings. 2. ANGIOPT1LRA, those with naked or uncov wings (such as the modern orders Le.

, Trkhoptera, Hymeaoptera, and Diptera). lPTZELA, comprehending the modern orders Heneiptera, Homoptera Orthophsra, and Dielsopteres.