Detharding also, this year, published a Disquisitio Jihy sica Vermium in Xorvegia qui nova visi, in quarto. It is a small treatise, relating to the larva of Phalxnz, or moths.
In 1743, George Edwards published the first volume of his .Natural History of uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed animals. London, quarto. The other volumes appeared before 1752, in which se veral insects are given.
In 1744, at Stockholm, was published by Degeer, an interesting little work in octavo, on the utility of study ing insects, entitled, Tal on: nyttan, Nom Insectere och deras sharshadande, tilskynda ass, pointing out the ad vantages of cultivating the natural history of those ani mals, and, as far as we know, is the oldest work on this subject.
In 1745, Ejusdem Olandska och Gothandska Resa fOrrOttad Ur, 1741. Stockholm och Upsala, 1745, one small volume octavo, by Linne.
In 1746, Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insectcn-Be lust/guns., by Misel of Nuremberg, a man of genius, by profession a miniature painter. The work is in quarto. Two other volumes appeared in 1749 and 1755. To these a fourth volume was added by a relation (Klee mannir) after his death in 1761; and, since that period, Kleemanahus published three other parts.
In 1747, a tract, explaining the advantages arising from the study of insects, entitled Dissertatio de Usu Cogniaonis Insectorunz, was published by C. F. Menan der.
In the same year, William Gould published in Lon don, An account of English Ants.
Also in Paris by Baziu, Abrege de l'Histoire des In sectes, Pour servir de suite a l'Histoire Nature/le des Abeilles.
In this year also was published in quarto, Adrian Gadd Observationes Physico-Economicce, in septentrionali pra tura territorii sufzerioris Satagundix collecte. Disecrtatio •Praside C. F Menander, Abox ; an interesting tract, explaining the advantages arising from the study of na tural history.
In this year, Theologie des Insectes de Lesser, avec des remarques de Lyonnet, a la Haye, in two volumes octavo, appeared, being a translation, with comments by Lyonnet, of Lesscr's Insecto-Theologia, published in 1738.
Also Buzin Gilles Augustin Abrige de l'Histoire des Insectes pour servir de suite a l'Histoire Xaturelle des .lbeilles. Paris, in two volumes duodecimo.
In 1748, was published in London, by J. Dutfield, six numbers of a natural history of English moths and but terflies.
And, in this year, T. C. Hoppe published two small entomological tracts, as Ant‘zeort-Schreiben auf Hern Schreibers zweifel ; and Eichen-Wciden-und Dorrosen. The first at Gera ; the second at Leipsie.
In 1749, Untie published Ejztsdem Skiinska Resa. And at Norembergh, J. M: Seligmann Ayes, adjectis ex G. Edwardi Iconibus. Folio.
In the same year, or perhaps earlier, the splendid work of under the title of The Eng lish illoths and Butterflies, together with the Plants on which they feed, and are usually found. The plates, which appeared first, bear no date. In the third vo lume of Rtisel's work, Insecten Belustigung, we find comments on this work, not to the credit of English en tomologists in general, when the science ought, from the labours of former writers, to have stood on very high ground in this country, and the public judgment to have been so far matured as to discover imposition.
Rtisel, in the plainest terms, accuses our author of pi racy ; and, when we reflect on the celebrity this work has heretofore enjoyed as an original production, it cer tainly attaches some little reproach to our naturalists, that facts, so publicly asserted on the continent, should have remained unknown to us. As the remarks are cu rious and interesting, we shall copy this part, translated by a friend. " In the supplement, or third part of my amusements of insects, I have mentioned a certain work which Mr Wilks in London continues monthly, and promised that I should take some opportunity of giving a more circumstantial account. Since then the plates amount to ninety, all of which I have examined with great attention. They are as yet destitute of any de scription, which is, however, promised at some future period. In the notice to these plates, he professes to have drawn them from life ; but, by those Acquainted with other works, it will readily be discovered that se veral are taken from Albin's work, from Merian's book, and many from my own. 'Row far he has. succeeded, I leave to the judgment of others. An ape mimics every thing, but does not always succeed. I may appear to many too severe ; but let them consider that he counter feits the works of others, and gives them for his own. I venture to assert, that in the future description of his work, he will be careful not to mention the authors whose works he has so unjustly robbed; for he already strives to conceal on his plates what he has copied from others, by reversing the figures, or by giving them a different position." Vol. iii. p. 192. 1749. The substance of these remarks we are sorry to be under the necessity of allow ing to be true; for the eye of the artist will perceive, on comparing the two publications, that Wilks has taken an unlimited range through the first volume of Rose'. We have repeated the remarks of RCisel at length, because we wish to impress on the public mind the value and importance of any general work, in preference to pro ductions of this nature. Wilks was also publisher of Twelve new designs of Butterflies, in which the insects are disposed in stars, festoons, circles, or other whimsi cal groups, forming what are usually denominated "but terfly pictures." The nature of the first work above mentioned, is rather incorrectly stated in the title-page ; for the plants on which the insects are grouped, are not those which furnish their natural food; they consist of gaudy flowers, auriculas, roses, monstrous varieties of cultured plants, fruits, Exc. the introduction of which, in preference to their natural food, has incurred considera ble censure.