nd talented author of so
many well-known works.

(*Footnote. Voyage autour du monde etc. sur les corvettes de S.M.
l'Uranie et la Physicienne 1817 a 1820 Paris 1824 Partie Zoologie.
Freycinet's Voyage, but for the lamentable shipwreck of one of his
vessels, would have added much to our acquaintance with the Natural
History of the places visited. Messrs. Quoy and Gaymard, Medecins de
l'expedition, published the Zoological part of their notes. They refer
with regret to the disastrous accident which deprived them of large
collections of Insects made more particularly in the environs of Port
Jackson. They describe and figure but one insect from New Holland
(Curculio lemniscatus from Shark Bay) a spider from Port Jackson (Aranea
notacautha Quoy, Dolophones notacantha Walckenaer Apt. 1 383) in which
the brown callosities at the end of the cylindrical abdomen were taken
for eyes, a position rectified by Walckenaer as above and by Kirby in his
Bridgewater Treatise where he gives a copy of the French figure of this
singular spider--Two Crustacea, one (Ocypode convexus) from Dirk
Hatterick's and the other (Pagurus clibanarius) from Shark Bay, are all
the Annulose animals described or figured as coming from New Holland,
from the pitiable circumstance above alluded to.)

The figures and descriptions of Guerin, though fewer in number, are more
detailed than those of Dr. Boisduval, who was much limited for space.

It would take up too much time to give a tithe of the names of the
entomologists who have described New Holland insects* as nearly every
working student of insects abroad and at home has added to the list.

(*Footnote. The entomologist who would attempt to do this must give a
Universal Entomological Bibliography, as scarcely a Journal or volume of
Transactions of any Scientific Society appears without containing fewer
or more species from the great Australasian Continent and its islands.)

Messieurs Audouin, Blanchard, and Boisduval will shortly publish
descriptions of the insects etc. collected on D'Urville's last voyage.
Latreille, Dejean, Schoenherr, and Klug must be specially particularized;
Gory, Percheron, Chevrolat, Aube, Serville, Reiche, Spinola, Fischer, and
Mannerheim have all more or less added to our acquaintance with the
species. Many New Holland Arachnida and Pacific Ocean Crustacea have been
described in the well-known works of the Baron Walckenaer and Dr. Milne
Edwards. In this country Kirby, Hope, Curt