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Rennie wrote, among many other books, The Natural History of Insects published by John Murray (1829) and co-authored with John Obadiah Westwood; Insect Architecture (1830), a popular work originally in the Library of Entertaining Knowledge but reissued in 1857 by John Murray; and Alphabet of Botany For Use of Beginners (1834).
Illustration by Edward Donovan, c. 1802–1808. Edward Donovan (1768 – 1 February 1837) was an Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist.He did not travel, but collected, described and illustrated many species based on the collections of other naturalists.
The natural Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) wrote a book on the kinds of insects, [4] while the scientist of Kufa, Ibn al-A'rābī (760–845 CE) wrote a book on flies, Kitāb al-Dabāb (كتاب الذباب). However scientific study in the modern sense began only relatively recently, in the 16th century. [5]
He was also author of The letters of Rusticus on the natural history of Godalming. Extracted from the Magazine of natural history, the Entomological magazine, and the Entomologist (1849). [1] The topic of these "letters" is economic entomology, some were published in Chamber's Journal. Newman's Attempted division of British Insects into natural ...
Frontispiece from 1736 edition of The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects with Albin on a horse. Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690 – c. 1742) [1] was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and A Natural History of Spiders and other ...
Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (The Etymologies, c. 600 –625) quotes from Pliny 45 times in Book XII alone; [94] Books XII, XIII and XIV are all based largely on the Natural History. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Through Isidore, Vincent of Beauvais 's Speculum Maius ( The Great Mirror , c. 1235–1264) also used Pliny as a source for his own work.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 81–89 (1840) The full text. On the Evaniidae and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)7: 535–538 (1841). Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Arcana Entomologica 1(5): 73–80 (1842) The full text.
It proposed “ Natural classes and genera are based not only on the mouthparts, the wings or the antennae, but on careful observation of the entire structure, even of the smallest differences". Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841) born. 1798 Edward Donovan An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China published in London. It is a ...