etc. London 1805 4to.)

Dr. Robert Brown, when on Flinders' voyage, collected many interesting
insects which were described by Kirby in the 12th volume of the Linnean
Transactions.* Several specimens were deposited by this celebrated
botanist in the British Museum. We find Dr. Leach commencing the
description of New Holland insects in his Zoological Miscellany; and
Macleay in his Horae Entomologicae described many curious Lamellicornes.
Since that time the communication with the great South Continent has been
so uninterrupted that collections have been continually coming to Europe,
and scarcely a ship now arrives without some additions being made to this
branch of science.

(*Footnote. Volume 12 1818 pages 454 to 478. A description of several new
species of Insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esquire,
F.R.S. etc., by the Reverend W. Kirby, M.A., F.R.S. etc. 33 species
described, 13 figured on tab. 23. Mr. Kirby, in his century of Insects
published in the same volume, described 17 New Holland species, and in
the same celebrated paper founded four new genera upon Australasian
Insects, Adelium, Rhinotia, Eurhinus and Rhinaria. He would have
described other genera but for his fear of interfering with Germar's
labours on the Curculionidae. N.B. Strongylium chalconotum is from Brazil
and not from Australasia as indicated.)

The French voyages of discovery under Freycinet,* Duperrey, D'Urville,
and Laplace have contributed very much to extend our knowledge of the
Natural History of the Southern islands, as the publication of the
History of the Voyages of the Uranie, Coquille, Astrolabe, and Favorite,
amply testify; we are more especially indebted to Admiral D'Urville, who
seems to unite the seemingly incompatible duties of commander of an
expedition with an enthusiastic love of and search after insects. M.
Guerin-Meneville published the Annulose animals of the Voyage de la
Coquille, in which New Holland genera and species take a prominent place.
Dr. Boisduval described those collected on the expedition of the
Astrolabe, he also published the first Fauna Entomologica of New Holland
and the Pacific; in his two volumes he gives a synoptical description of
all the species he met with in the Parisian collections, indicating also
such as he found in books whether he had seen the specimens or not. More
detailed descriptions are looked for on some future occasion by the
entomologists of this country from the learned a