entomology

[Gr. entoma insects (Aristotle), properly an adj., with zoa -living creatures, understood; entomos =cut in pieces, cut up; logos = discourse.] The science which treats of insects. Aristotle pointed out one of the e ential characteristics from which they derive their names in Greek, Latin, and English-viz., that their bodies are cut or divided into segments. [ANNULOSA.] In modern times, Aldrovandus published a History of dam's General History of Insec's, published in 1669, Insects in 1604, and Moufet one in 1634. Swammer IMG:content-1047.png:[ocr errors] was the first work in which good descriptions of insects were given. A work by Ray appeared in 1710, and in 1735 Linnæus' cla ification of them in the System a Natura . Latreille's Précis des Carac tères génériques des Insectes was published in 1796, and his Genera Crusta ceo rum et In sec to rum between 1806 and 1800. Writers upon entomology since this time are too well known to need mention here.