Marcello Malpighi. 1628–1694. Jan Swammerdam. 1637–1680. Pierre Lyonnet. 1707–1789. Hercule Straus-Dürckheim. 1790–1865. The lovers of minute anatomy have always been specially attracted to Insects; and it is not hard to tell why. No other animals, perhaps, exhibit so complex an organisation condensed into so small a body. We possess, accordingly, a remarkable succession of memoirs on the structure of single Insects, beginning with the revival of Anatomy in the 17th century and extending to our own times. The most memorable of these Insect-monographs bear the names of Malpighi, Swammerdam, Lyonnet, and Straus-Dürckheim.…
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