And in the same year, a small octavo, Jacobi Petiveri bluseunz In 1699, Hombergh published a paper in the Memoirs of the Frei.ch Academy, on 4grion virgo.
In 1700. was published, in three volumes, duodecimo, Histoire Nature& des Insectes scion leurs differentes metamorphoses, observies par Jean Goedart. Amster dam.
ln 1702, James Petiver produced the first decade of his Gazophylacium nature et artis," which was carried on progressively till about ten y cars afterwards. It consists of ten decades, which treat of insects, as well as larger animals, fowls, and plants.
In 1705, our celebrated countryman Ray published his work entitled, Methodus Insectorum, seu in inethodum digesta.
In this year also, the entomological part of the work of Rumphius appeared.
In 1707, appeared in London, A Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, with the Natural History &c. by Hans Sloane. Folio.
In 1710. Russel published his Theatrum. universale oznnium animalium. which treats of insects.
And the illustrious Ray's Ristoria Insectorum, under the care of Dr Derham, after the author's death, appear ed. In this work, he divides insects into two principal classes, such as undergo transformation, and those that do not ; and these he subdivides into several orders. He includes amongst these some vermes, which have again been removed by Linnzeus, As we shall have occasion to mention hereafter.
In 1717, Wedelio published a tract on the utility of Cantharides in the materia medics, in Jena.
And in the same year, J. Petiver, an entomological writer, published a work, Papilionum Brittanite lcones, nomina, &c. in folio, London, which in its time was certainly a valuable publication to the student of ento mology, and even now, as a work of reference, is in 'high repute.
In 1720, Frisch published his von Inset ten in Deutschland : the whole work consists of thirteen parts, each being illustrated by three plates.
In this year, Elenzare Albin published in London, Natural History of English Insects, with one hundred copperplates, in one volume quarto.
In 1721, Bradley published in London, A Philosophi cal Account of the Works of Nature, which contains some entomological matter, and also a few engravings of insects, in octavo.
In 1722, Opera Oznnia, containing all the works of Leeuwenhoek.
In 1725, Sir Hans Sloane published in London, the second volume of his Natural History of Jamaica, the second book of which treats of the insects of that island. accompanied by several uncoloured plates.
In 1726, Merian published at the Hague, in large folio, De generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinam ensium ; the materials of which were collected by her self, or under her directions, 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 insects, we find depicted plants, and various reptiles, as toads, lizards, serpents, Re.
In 1730, Valisnieri, in his Fsperienze et Observazioni intorno agli inst.lli, distributes all insects into four classes, from their habitats. The first comprehends those which live on plants ; the second, such as live in water ; the third, those that live on earth, or amongst stones ; and the fourth, those which subsist on ether animals.
In 1731, was published in one volume quarto in Lon don, Insectorum Naturalis Historia illustraia Ico nibus in cenlum tabulis ezzeis eleganter ad vivunz expres sis, Uc. by Eleazare Albin, and was esteemed an elegant work ; but, we must confess, it is more remarkable for gaudiness than &laity.
In 1731, at London, Histoire Naturelle de la Caroline, la Floride, &e. par Marc Catesby, folio.
In 1734., the first volume of Reatimur's Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes ; was published in Paris. The five succeeding volumes appeared between that time and 1742.
In 1734, Alberti Sebx. Locupletissimi rerum natura lium Thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosis simis expressio Latine et Galilee, tom. iv. fitio. The first volume appeared in the above year, the other three before 1765.