? o In a on the natural history of the .Ephe mera horaria, by Sivanunerdam, appeared, entitled, Enhe meri rita of afbeeldingh van 's nzenschen levee, ventoont in de Historic van het ulzgent cede crn-daghlevent Haft of Oever-aes.
And in the same year, an elementary tract by George Belerio, printed at Upsal, Trfe; •re'iv About the same time, also, by Samuel Bochart, a work entitled, Hierozoicon, sire bipartztum opus de animalibus Saner re Scripturs.
In 1676, some additions to Claude Perrault's work were published.
In 1679, Madame Maria Sybilla Merian, vel Creaffinn, produced the first part of her work, " Der Raupen wun derbare verwandelung and sonderbare blumen-nahrung," which relates principally to European lepidopterous in sects. The authoress was a native of Frankfort on the "Maine, wife of John Andrew Giiiffinn. In early life, she imbibed a taste for the study of insects, from beihg oc cupied at times in painting these objects as ornaments to her flower-pieces. The task of painting insects she per formed with tolerable accuracy ; yet there is " a pecu liar exuberance of style incompatible with any faithful resemblance of nature." Many of her original drawings are preserved in the British Museum as specimens of her style.
In 1680 was published, Johannis Jacobi Wagneri, Historia .A'aturalis Helvetia curiosa. Figurx.
In 1681, Grew published his Museum Regalis Sock :atis ; being a catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society of London, preserved in Gresham college. London. Folio.
In the same year, an English translation of Swammer dam's Elzhemeri Vita was produced in London, and a French translation in Paris.
In 1682, a book entitled Johannes Godartius of In sects, done into English, and mrthodised, with the addi tion of notes, the figures etched in copper by Mr P. Fib, was published at York. It is supposed to have been translated by Lister; the initials M. L. are at the close of the address "to the reader." The impression, as we learn from the preface, consisted of one hundred and fifty copies, which were intended merely for the curious ; and the notes are copious.
In 1682, Hoppis published a dissertation on the Gryl ;us migratorius.
In 1683, the second part of Merian's Der RauPen, Szc. appeared.
In 1685, the first Latin edition of Swammerdam's work was printed in Lyons, under the title, Historia Generalis insectorunz, Latinanz fedt H. C. Ilennius.
In this year also, Lister's Latin edition of Goedart, entitled, J. Goedartius de Insectis in methodum redac tun, cum notularum additione, opere M. Lister, in octavo, appeared in the Latin language. The author distributes the materials into a new form of arrangement, the merits of which are too obvious not to be considered as an im provement on the original production. He divides them into ten sections, as follow.
1. Those with erect wings, and angulated pupa:. But !erflies.
2. Those with their wings placed horizontally, and vhich pioceecl from caterpillars, by Goedart, from their gait. Moths.
3. Those with deflexed wings. Moths.
4. Libellulx, or dragon flies..
5. Bees. .
6. Beetles.
7. G ra s hop pers.
8. Dipterous, or two-winged flies 9. AlillePedes. (Now Crustacea.) 10. Spiders. (Now alrachnides.) See the article Calls: